Faculty

Dr. Norman K. Swazo
Interim/Acting Dean,
Professor of Philosophy and Biomedical Ethics
College of Science & General Studies
Alfaisal University
Riyadh, KSA

Email: nswazo@alfaisal.edu
Tel : +(966-1) 215-7726 office

Education:
Ph.D.	1988	University of Georgia , USA, Philosophy
Grad. Cert.	1987	University of Georgia, USA, Global Policy Studies
M.H.S.A.	1978	The University of Michigan , USA, Health Services Administration
A.B .,	1976	Princeton University , USA, Science in Human Affairs

Research Interests:

Ethics in International Affairs
Biomedical Ethics
Recent European Philosophy

Publications: (Recent Publications)
Refereed journal papers:

Swazo, N. K. 2011. “Islamic Intellectualism: Rahman, Gadamer, and the Hermeneutics of the Qur’an,” American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences. Vol. 28, No. 4, Fall 2011 (forthcoming)
Swazo, N. K. 2011. “’No Contagion’ (la adwa) in Islam: Between the Imperatives of Hadith and Medical Practice,” Journal of the International Society for the History of Islamic Medicine, Vol. 10, No. 19 (forthcoming)
Swazo, N.K. 2010. “Negotiating the Climate Change Regime: The Case of Saudi Arabia,” Middle East Review of International Affairs, Vol 14, No. 4, December 2010, pp. 11-25
Swazo, N.K. 2010. “ ‘Just One Animal Among Many?’ Existential Phenomenology, Ethic, and Stem Cell Research,” Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, Vol. 31, pp. 197-224
Swazo, N.K. 2009. “Book Review: Abdulaziz Sachedina, Islamic Biomedical Ethics: Principles and Application,” American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, Vol. 26, No. 4, Fall 2009, pp. 111-113
Swazo, N.K. 2009. “Rehabilitating Islamic Ethics: A ‘Postmodern’ Opportunity for Contemporary Islam”, American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, Vol. 26, No. 2, May 2009, pp. 1-22
Swazo, N.K. 2008.”My Brother is My King’: Evaluating the Moral Duty of Global Jihad,” International Journal on World Peace, Vol. XXV, No. 4, December, pp. 7-47
Swazo, N.K. 2008. “Is There an Ethical Doctor in the House?: Avoiding ‘the Dream of [Having] an Ethical Algorithm’,” The Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine; online http://yjhm.yale.edu/essays/nswazo20080825.htm
Swazo, N.K. 2008. “Human Version 2.0: Between the ‘Banality’ and ‘Ressentiment’ of Neuroengineers,” NeuroQuantology, March, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 32-42
Swazo, N.K. 2007. “The Right to Health, International Law, and Economic Justice,” The Internet Journal of Law, Healthcare, and Ethics, Vol. 5, No. 1
Swazo, N.K. 2006. “Calculating Risk/Benefit in X-Linked Severe Combined Immune Deficiency Disorder (X-SCID) Gene Therapy Trials: The Task of Ethical Evaluation,” Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, Vol. 31, pp. 533-564
Swazo, N.K. 2005. “Research Integrity and Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Appropriating Foucault’s Critique of Knowledge/Power,” Studies in the History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Vol. 36, pp. 568-584

Book Chapters :

Swazo, N.K. 2009. “From Crisis to Renovation: Hwa Yol Jung’s Contribution to Political Theory.” In Jin Y. Park, ed., Comparative Political Theory and Cross-Cultural Philosophy: Essays in Honor of Hwa Yol Jung (Lexington Books: 2009), pp. 83-101
Swazo, N.K. 2008. “Chapter IV: ‘A Chance to Do the Science Right’: Evaluating the Ethics of the Genographic Project,” in: Viktor T. Koven, ed., Population Genetics Research Progess (NOVA Science Publishers), pp. 123-149

Teaching:

Alfaisal University, Riyadh, KSA
Undergraduate courses :

PHL 312 Ethics in International Affairs
MGT 210 Social Responsibility and Business Ethics (Fall 2009)
PHL 110 ETHICS (every semester)

University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA (1994-2008)

Introduction to Philosophy
Introduction to Logic
Introduction to Political Philosophy
Ethics
Ancient Greek Philosophy
Modern Philosophy
Epistemology
Metaphysics
Seminar in German/French Thought
Ethics in International Affairs
Biomedical Ethics
Ethics and Public Policy
Comparative Philosophy & Religion
Contemporary Philosophical Problems

Alfaisal University
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