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Cassie Houtz, PHD

Postdoctoral Fellow in the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Genetics & Genomics
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Cassie Houtz, PhD (she/her/hers) is a postdoctoral fellow in the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Genetics and Genomics in the Department of Medical Ethics & Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvnia Perelman School of Medicine. Her work focuses on bioethics, disability studies, and cultural imaginaries of flourishing, health, and disease. As a postdoctoral fellow, she brings a disability-informed lens to debates surrounding obesity, genetics, and the medicalization of body size. She received her PhD in the study of religion from Harvard University, where she explored the ethical and political implications of biomedical, philosophical, and theological conceptions of a "good life."

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