Philip R. Olson

I am a technology ethicist. My work engages with technology studies, bioethics and body studies, death studies, women’s and gender studies, and social epistemology. I am currently writing a book (under contract with MIT Press) about the women-led, U.S. home funeral movement. I am also working on the second phase of a project dealing with race and gender issues related to the integration of UAS (drone) technologies into US civilian airspace. I have worked with graduate students on a variety of topics, including cultural studies of diamonds, the development of space medicine, technology and religion, cultural and political theory, healthcare ethics, epistemology, and several other topics.