Towards an Affirmative Bioethics: An Interview with Martin Halliwell

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Martin Halliwell is Professor of American Studies in the School of Arts and the Centre for American Studies at the University of Leicester, UK, where he has twice served as Head of School. An expert in the medical and health humanities, he has published eleven monographs and co-edited four volumes, most recently, as author, American Health Crisis: One Hundred Years of Panic, Planning, and Politics (University of California Press, 2021) and, as co-editor, the Companion to the Politics of American Health (Edinburgh University Press, 2022). He has been the Chair of the British Association for American Studies (2010-13), both President and Chair of the English Association (2014-21), and the UK ambassador for the European Association for American Studies (2013-18). He is currently working on the final volume of a trilogy for Rutgers University Press, titled Transformed States: Medicine, Biotechnology, and American Culture, 1990–2020.