Connor Gilligan |
My name is Connor Gilligan. I am a New York resident studying anthropology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in the hopes of one day becoming an underwater archaeologist. I’m exceptionally grateful to be part of the John Jay community, the anthropology department therein, and especially to be part of this magazine. I am originally from Rockaway Beach in Queens, New York but at the age of eight I moved to Las Vegas, Nevada with my family where I lived until I was twenty-one years old. I attended Palo Verde High School for four years. After graduating I continued my education at the University of Nevada in Reno for one year then moved on to the College of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas. Despite having spent more than half my life in Nevada I had always felt that New York was my true home, so I decided that I would move back and further my education. Although it is only my first year at John Jay I have a great sense of feeling at home.
I have a great passion for researching and writing about controversial issues, especially in the field of medicine. I will be writing about a wide range of topics with an emphasis in the field of biomedical ethics. A great deal of my writing will pertain to issues with controversial topics especially in the fields of biology, technology, and medicine. In my articles, I will discuss the following subjects: drug use and abuse, abortion, stem cell research, cloning, artificial life, genetically modified food and organisms, pain management, alternative medicine, homeopathic remedies, assisted suicide, over treatment, over prescribing of medicine, medicine in society, medicine in the media, and many more like these. |