Chris Jordens
  1. Current research activities

    2. I am a multidisciplinary researcher currently specializing in bioethics and discourse analysis. I have also been recently appointed as the Australian editor of a new international bioethics journal, and I am keen for the journal to cover ethical issues in the field of tissue engineering. I am currently named as a research associate on an ARC linkage grant application that proposes to use visual arts to explore public understandings of DNA technologies, and the implications of such technologies for human identity. I wish to extend this approach to philosophical and bioethical enquiry into the field of tissue engineering.

  2. Keywords

    3. bioethics, discourse analysis, philosophy, human identity, medical humanities.

  3. End-user applications

    • Policy decisions
    • Community debate
    • Public awareness

  4. Key publications

    5. I. Jordens CFC. Outcome studies: an ethical perspective. In: Dooley B, Fearnside M, Gorton M, editors. Surgery, ethics and the law. Melbourne: Blackwell Science Asia; 2000.
    II. Little M, Jordens CFC, Sayers E-J. Discourse communities and the discourse of experience. Health 2003; 7: 73-86.
    III. Jordens CFC, Little M. “In this scenario, I do this, for these reasons”: narrative, genre and ethical reasoning in the clinic. Social Science & Medicine 2004 (in press).
    IV. Kerridge I, Jordens C, Sayers E-J, editors. Restoring humane values to medicine: a Miles Little reader. Sydney: Federation Press; 2003.
    V. V. Little M, Jordens C, Paul K, Sayers E-J. Surviving survival: life after cancer. Marrickville: Choice Books; 2001.

  5. Outreach activities

    6. None as yet.

  6. Key organisation membership

    7. None as yet.

  7. Early career researcher?

    8. Yes

  8. Young investigator?

    9. Yes

  9. Skills and expertise

    • Discourse analysis
    • Editing
    • General philosophy
    • Systemic Functional Linguistics
    • Ethical analysis
    • Qualitative research
    • Qualitative interviewing
    • Biostatistics
    • Epidemiology

  10. Specialist equipment and infrastructure

    • Specialist software for qualitative and statistical analysis of research data (SPSS and NVIVO).
    • Transcribing machine for interviews

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