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Place of Birth: California, United States
About Whitny Braun
- Whitny Braun is an American bioethicist, professor, researcher and documentary filmmaker who has been featured on NPR and the National Geographic Channel television program "Taboo".
- She has also been a contributor at the Huffington Post known for her work with bioethics and religion in popular culture.
- Her major work has focused on the Jain practice of Sallekhana and the Parsi practice of Dakhmenashini.
- She is currently an assistant professor of bioethics at Loma Linda University.
- Braun has written for the Huffington Post [1] and published on the topic of healthcare in the American prison system, specifically with regard to organ donation and the death penalty.
- Her current research focuses on the ongoing legal battle over Sallekhana in the Indian courts and possible American legal precedent for the practice.
- She has spoken at several international conferences about Christian, Jewish and Muslim philosophical approaches to artificial reproductive technology and the embryo industry in the United States as well as the ethics of disaster management.
- She has been published in "Natural Transitions" magazine, a publication which examines options for the dying process and has been interviewed on the topic of Sallekhana by Scientific American Magazine.
- Her research has also been featured in an interview with Steve Lopez of the LA Times.
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