Aleksy Tarasenko-Struc, PhD

Clinical Ethics Fellow 2022-24

Aleksy Tarasenko-Struc is Assistant Professor of Bioethics and Medical Humanities in the Philosophy Department at Seton Hall University, where he holds a secondary appointment in the School of Health and Medical Sciences. He is also director of SHU's Medical Humanities Program. He completed a PhD in philosophy at Harvard University, where his doctoral work was supported by the Edmond J. and Lily Safra Center for Ethics. Dr. Tarasenko-Struc’s research in bioethics concerns the dehumanizing aspects of wrongful clinical practices, as well as the scope of justified paternalism in medicine and the nature of decisional capacity. His work is published or forthcoming in Philosophical Quarterly, Hastings Center Report, Ergo, Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, Journal of the American Philosophical Association, European Journal of Philosophy, and two collections of essays.