Senior Fellow, Center for Bioethics
Associate Director, Graduate Programs
Department: Medical Ethics

Center for Bioethics
3401 Market Street
Suite 320
Philadelphia, PA 19104-3308
Office: 215-573-4042
Email:
noralj@mail.med.upenn.edu
Links:
University of Pennsylvania Master of Bioethics Program
Education:
BS (Anthropology)
University of California, 1994.
MA (Visual Anthropology)
Temple University, 2001.
PhD (Anthropology)
Temple University, 2002.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Urban Bioethics, culture and bioethics, the anthropology of the body, popular understandings of science and medicine, and visual/medical anthropology

ABOUT:
Nora Jones, PhD is the Associate Director of Graduate Studies and Senior Fellow in the Center for Bioethics. Dr. Jones is a visual anthropologist whose research focuses on the visual communication of science and the anthropology of the body.

Selected Publications

Jones, NL. "Representations of the Body in Pain: Anthropological Approaches." In Miller, Rhonda (ed) The Handbook of Pain and Palliative Care. Estimated publication date: Winter, 2011

Jones, NL. "Embodied Ethics: From the Body as Specimen and Spectacle to the Body as Patient." In Lees (ed) A Companion to the Anthropology of Bodies/Embodiments, Willey-Blackwell Publishing, 2011.

Jones NL: "The Importance of Embodiment in Transplant Ethics." The Penn Center Guide to Bioethics. Ravitsky V, Fiester A, Caplan A (eds.). Springer 2009.

Pamela Sankar, Nora L. Jones: "Semi-structured Interviews in Bioethics Research." Advances in Bioethics v11: Empirical Methods for Bioethics: A Primer. Liva Jacoby and L. Siminoff (eds.). Elsevier Ltd, Page: 107-28, 2008.

Sankar P, Karlawish J, and Jones N: "Evaluating Existing and Emerging Connections Among Interdisciplinary Researchers" Bioscience 57(11): 965-72, 2007.

Jones NL: "A Visual anthropological approach to the 'edutainment' of Body Worlds" The American Journal of Bioethics 7(4): 40-2, 2007.

Pamela Sankar, Paul Root Wolpe, Nora L. Jones, Mildred Cho: "How do Women Decide? Accepting or Declining BRCA1/2 Testing in a Nationwide Clinical Sample in the United States." Community Genetics 9(2): 78-86, 2006.

Pamela Sankar, Nora L. Jones: "To Tell or Not To Tell: Primary Care Patients' Disclosure Deliberations." Archives of Internal Medicine 165(23): 78-83, 2005.

Pamela Sankar, Susan Moran, Jon L. Merz, and Nora L. Jones: "Perspectives on Medical Confidentiality: A Review of the Literature." Journal of General Internal Medicine 8(18): 659-669, August 2003.

Nora L. Jones, Stephanie Takaragawa: "Anthropology, Representation, and Museums." Ethnoscripts 5(1): 35-47, 2003 Notes: Special edition of Visuelle Anthropologie.

Nora L. Jones: Review of "Bioethics in Social Context." The American Journal of Bioethics. B. Hoffmaster (eds.). 3(3), 2003.