{"id":1460,"date":"2012-12-07T00:31:27","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T00:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ipcrc.net\/news\/?p=1460"},"modified":"2012-12-07T00:31:27","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T00:31:27","slug":"katherine-irene-pettus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ipcrc.net\/news\/katherine-irene-pettus\/","title":{"rendered":"Katherine Irene Pettus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Katherine Irene Pettus, PhD<\/h1>\n
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\"Katherine<\/p>\n

International Associate Faculty, The Institute for Palliative Medicine
\nat San Diego Hospice, San Diego, California<\/strong><\/p>\n

E-mail: kp91@TaosNet.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Katherine has worked for peace and justice in the anti-nuclear movement, the Central American solidarity movement, and the environmental movement for most of her life. She is a patient care volunteer at San Diego Hospice and a graduate of the Metta Institute for Contemplative End of Life Care. After living in Managua during the early 1980’s and working as a translator for the Council of State, she returned to the US to do her graduate work in International Relations at Columbia University in New York. She was awarded her doctorate in political theory from Columbia after successfully completing her dissertation on the history and practice of felony disenfranchisement. Having taught political theory and American politics at Columbia, Barnard College, and several universities in New Mexico, she moved to San Diego to study Health Law, with a specialty in palliative care and international law, at the University of California San Diego. She is deeply committed to the success of the Leadership Development Initiative at the Institute for Palliative Medicine and is writing a book on palliative care and political theory, to be published by SUNY Press in 2013. Her research focuses on the social, ethical, and political consequences of the international narcotics control regime.<\/p>\n

Education \/ Honors<\/h2>\n