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Craig Klugman


Classes Taught

  • Ethics for Health Sciences (HLTH 229)
  • Health Humanities (HLTH 329)
  • Bioethics in Society Capstone Seminar (HLTH 339)
  • Death and Dying​ (HLTH 341)

Research Interests

Craig M. Klugman, PhD is Vincent de Paul Professor of Bioethics & Health Humanities.  He is a bioethicist and medical anthropologist who works on end-of-life issues, digital health, public health ethics, and pedagogy. Dr. Klugman co-directs the minor in Bioethics & Society, serves on the Northwestern Hospital ethics committee, and is a voting member of the National Biosecurity Science Board. He is the editor of Research Methods in Health Humanities (2019, Oxford University Press), MacMillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks in Philosophy: Medical Ethics (2016, Gale Cengage Press) and Ethical Issues in Rural Health (2008/2013, Johns Hopkins University Press). Dr. Klugman is the producer of the award-winning film, Advance Directives and frequently contributes to national media.

Select Publications

  • Klugman CM & Levine C (2024). Diagnosing Shosha: literature as a lens to view disease and history. Medical Humanities 50 (3):450-455. doi: 10.1136/medhum-2023-012794
  • Berry SL, Klugman CM, Williams AL, Camodeca G, Levelle T, Lamb EG (2023). Health Humanities: A Baseline Survey of Baccalaureate and Graduate Programs in North America. Journal of Medical Humanities. doi: 10.1007/s10912-023-09790-5
  • Klugman CM & Bard J (2023). Medicolegal & Ethical Aspects. In T. Nutbeam, M. Boylan, C. Leach, & C. Bosanko (Eds.), ABCs of Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine (Second; pp. 243–248). Wiley
  • Michelson K, Klugman CM, Kho A, Gerke S (2022). Ethical Considerations Related to Using Machine Learning-Based Prediction of Mortality in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. Journal of Pediatrics: 247 (Aug): 125-128. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2021.12.069
  • Klugman CM (2022). Establishing and Practicing Ethical Standards: Both a Personal and Professional Responsibility. In Klinedinst, JA (ed). The Handbook of Continuing Professional Development for the Health Informatics Professional (pp. 343-350). Boca Raton, FL: Productivity Press. doi: 10.4324/9780429398377
  • Klugman CM (2021 Winter). Bring Out Your [Sort of, Mostly, All] Dead: Should Those Dead by Neurological Criteria Be Research Subjects? Journal of Clinical Ethics 32 (4): 343-348
  • Tariman JD, Klugman CM, Webber-Ritchy K, Amer KS (2021). Care Delivery and Treatment Decision Making: Bioethical and nursing considerations during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing 25 (1): 61-68. doi: 10.1188/21.21CJON.61-68
  • Klugman CM, Dunn L, Schwartz J, Cohen IG (2018). The Ethics of Smart Pills and Self-Acting Devices: Autonomy, Truth-Telling, and Trust at the Dawn of Digital Medicine. American Journal of Bioethics 18(9): 38-47. doi: 10.1080/15265161.2018.1498933