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Deborah Barnbaum is Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Coordinator of the Minor in Bioethics and Health Humanities. She received her BA in Philosophy and English from in 1990 and her MA and PhD in Philosophy from the in 1993 and 1996, respectively. She is a bioethicist specializing in the ethics of clinical research and the ethics of autism. 

Her books include:

1. (co-edited with David Pereplyotchik, Routledge, 2017)
2. (Indiana University Press, 2009)
3. (with Michael Byron, Prentice Hall 2001)

Her most recent publications include:

1. Julie Aultman, Deborah R. Barnbaum and Kimberly Garchar, “Bioethical Considerations in the Age of COVID: The Intersections of Medicine, Science, and Public Health in Ohio,” in, eds. Katherine Sorrels, et al, University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor), 2023, pp. 119-131.     
2. “,” Ethics & Human Research, 42(3), May-June 2020: 43-44.
3. “,” Ethics & Human Research, 41(5), September-October 2019: 35-40.

She serves on numerous data safety monitoring boards for clinical trials, including , , the (Approaches and Decisions in Acute Pediatric TBI Trial), and the (Cultivated Autologous Limbal Epithelial Cells Transplantation in Treatment of Limbal Stem Cell Deficiency). At Kent State she most often teaches Health Care Ethics (PHIL 4/50005) and Medicine and Morality (PHIL 30015). Her current research is on ethical monitoring of clinical trials.