Professor, Social Medicine
School of Medicine
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
nmpking@med.unc.edu
Before joining the Social Medicine faculty at the University of
North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, Professor King worked
with the General Counsel of the Health Care Financing Administration.
During the same period she collaborated with leading scholars at
Duke Law School and Georgetown's Kennedy Institute of Ethics on
projects in health law and medical ethics.
King teaches legal, social, and ethical issues to medical students
as part of the comprehensive social medicine curriculum at UNC.
Her research interests center on authority and responsibility in
health care decisions—from patients and physicians to payers and
institutions—and on the moral reasoning behind policy decisions
at the hospital, state and federal levels. She has worked extensively
on issues related to informed consent, experimental technologies,
and decision making at the end of life. King's current work focuses
on questions of benefit and the "therapeutic misconception" in human
subjects research. King has also lectured widely on these subjects
to physicians and other audiences from Davidson, NC to Victoria
Falls, Zimbabwe.
Her professional work has also included research and writing on
competition in the health care industry, with a special focus on
the economic and antitrust implications of health care credentialing.
King has worked at the federal level on trial and appellate litigation,
case management, and regulation review in Medicare and Medicaid
programs. Her participation at the state level has recently been
focused on writing and implementing out-of-hospital "Do Not Resuscitate"
orders, an effort which involves consultation with patients, physicians,
emergency medical personnel, hospital, and nursing home staff and
other institutions.
Professor King co-chairs UNC Hospitals Ethics Committee and serves
on the UNC School of Medicine's Committee on the Protection of the
Rights of Human Subjects as well as the Recombinant DNA Advisory
Committee of the National Institutes of Health. A revised edition
of her book, Making Sense of Advance Directives, was published by
Georgetown University Press in 1996. She is a co-editor, with Department
of Social Medicine colleagues, of The Social Medicine Reader (Duke
University Press, 1997). King is also co-editor of Beyond Regulations:
Ethics in Human Subjects Research (UNC Press, 1999) and a collaborator
on A History and Theory of Informed Consent (Oxford, 1986). Altogether
she has published seven books and over forty articles.
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