SARA GOMES

Bioethicist & Clinical Ethics Fellow

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Pronouns: she/her

About me

I am currently a Postdoctoral Clinical Ethics Fellow at the University of Utah's Center for Health Ethics, Arts, and Humanities, where I sit on the Ethics Committees of the University of Utah Hospital and Primary Children's Hospital, and participate in case consultations across adult and pediatric care.

Research

In my research, I combine feminist philosophy with empirical health and social science to identify ideological distortions, debunk essentializing and victim-blaming explanations, and reveal the social and political determinants of health.
My current work focuses on the biopolitics of sterilization and how cultural stereotypes about pain sensitivity obscure the structural and political causes of pain inequities and enable systematic testimonial injustice.

Forthcoming Publications

S.C. Gomes (forthcoming) “Morbus Mediterraneus: A Cultural Alibi for an Unequal Pain Burden.” Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal.
S.C. Gomes (in press) "Political Representation and Solidarity." In S. Werner & L. Walz (eds.) Solidarität:en. Tübingen University Press.

Older Publications

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Education

I am completing an MA in Medical Ethics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. I hold a PhD in Medicine from Ruhr University Bochum (2020) and an MD from the University of Coimbra (2013).