Helen S. Chapple, PhD, RN, MSN

Helen S. Chapple, PhD, RN, MSN

Helen S. Chapple, PhD, RN, MSN

Professor
School of Medicine, Omaha Campus

Expertise/Specializations

  • Medical Anthropology
  • End of Life Care
  • State and local policies related to care of the dying
  • Organ donation and transplantation
  • Biomedical ethics
  • Nursing ethics

Academic Appointments

Department

  • Medical Humanities

Position

  • Professor

Secondary Appointment

  • School of Medicine

Teaching Activity

  • Masters in Bioethics Program

Biography

Bio for Helen Stanton Chapple, PhD, RN, MA, MSN
 
Helen S. Chapple, a professor at Creighton University, teaches online in the Masters in Bioethics Program. Her 20 years as a bedside nurse included oncology, hospice, research, and ICU nursing. Current research interests include dying persons as an unrepresented population; US racial history and the pandemic; and relating solidarity and autonomy.  She authored “No Place for Dying: Hospitals and the Ideology of Rescue,” published by Routledge, and co-edited the 3rd edition of “The Handbook of Thanatology.”
 
Dr. Chapple’s terminal degree is a PhD in Medical Anthropology from UVa.  She has been writing and teaching in the areas of ethics and thanatology for 30 years, focusing on the phenomenon of dying in the culture of US health care and its demographics, and she has published articles, books, and book chapters along the way.  A current interest is the correlation between terror management theory and group status threat among white persons in the US and its explanatory potential.

Publications and Presentations

Books

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Articles

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Publications

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Editing and Reviews

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General

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Presentations

Research and Scholarship

Research and Scholarship Interests

  • End of life care;  health facility policies; white superiority and vaccine hesitancy; terror management theory; state regulation of post mortem care.