Office: Bear Hall 272
Phone: (910) 962-3558
Email: gauthierc@uncw.edu
Web Site: http://people.uncw.edu/gauthierc/

Degrees

• Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• M.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• M.S., State University of New York at Potsdam
• B.A., State University of New York at Oswego

Areas of Expertise

• Ethics, Medical Ethics, Media Ethics

Recent Publications

• "Evidence-Based Medical Ethics", co-authored with John Snyder, MD, published by Springer, 2008. 
• “The Virtue of Moral Responsibility and the Obligations of Patients,” Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 30 (2005): 153-166.
• "News Media Coverage of National Tragedies: Public Grieving as Public Discourse," International Journal of Applied Philosophy," 17:1 (2003) 33-45.
• "The Virtue of Moral Responsibility in Healthcare Decisionmaking," Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 11:3 (2002) 273-281.
• "Privacy Invasion by the News Media: Three Ethical Models," Journal of Mass Media Ethics, 17:1 (2002) 20-34.
• "Active Voluntary Euthanasia, Terminal Sedation, and Assisted Suicide," The Journal of Clinical Ethics, 12:1 (2001) 52-59.
• "Respect for Autonomy and Moral Responsibility: Meeting the Communitarian Challenge," Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, 10:4 (2000) 337-352.
• "The Right to Know, Press Freedom, and Public Discourse," Journal of Mass Media Ethics, 14: 4 (1999) 197-212 

Courses Taught

• PAR 115: Introduction to Ethics
• PAR 215: Bioethics
• PAR 315: Media Ethics
• PAR 495: Research Ethics
• PAR 515: Ethical Issues in Research