International Health Humanities Network Membership

Dr. Lucas is an academic bioethicist with interests in health inequities and health humanities. They received an MA in religious and cultural studies from Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York and a master’s degree in bioethics (MBE) and PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Lucas’ current research projects center on identification and enactments of unconscious racism in clinical settings. Their approaches to this work include centering patients’ narrative voices as the definers of unconscious racism and investigating approaches to dismantling the transmission of learned, enacted unconscious racism in health education settings. Their use of narrative as method and ethics includes focusing on writing, eliciting, and contextualizing narratives to address, highlight, or otherwise inform a research, clinical, or pedagogical question. Narrative ethics in their work makes apparent the actors’ positionalities within structural racism and white supremacy while simultaneously identifying stories and positionalities within dominant and non-dominant narratives. Dr. Lucas’ work (a) finds, records, and highlight these narratives followed by (b) contextualizing them for healthcare establishments (education, research, practice) in order to (c) mobilize compelling narratives that will work toward policy change.