Amitai Etzioni, PhD Biography
- Title:
- University Professor at George Washington University
- Position:
- Pro to the question "Should Euthanasia or Physician-Assisted Suicide Be Legal?"
- Reasoning:
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“[W]hen the family and doctor are united and the patient’s wishes are clearly established, there should be ways to end life when suffering becomes unbearable-even if the patient remains a conscious human being.”
“No State Intrusions,” The National Law Journal, Nov. 28, 2005
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- University Professor, George Washington University
- Professor of International Affairs, The Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University
- Director, Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies, George Washington University
- Editor, The Responsive Community: Rights and Responsibilities, 1991-2004
- Recipient, John P. McGovern Award in Behavioral Sciences, 2001
- Recipient, Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, 2001
- Named among the top 100 American intellectuals by Richard Posner in Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline, 2001
- President, American Sociological Association, 1994-1995
- Founder, Communitarian Network, 1990
- Founding President, International Society for the Advancement of Socio Economics, 1989-1990
- Thomas Henry Carroll Ford Foundation Professor, Harvard Business School, 1987-1989
- Senior Advisor to the White House, 1979-1980
- Guest Scholar, Brookings Institution, 1978
- Professor of Sociology, Columbia University, 1958-1978
- Recipient, Seventh James Wilbur Award for Extraordinary Contributions to the Appreciation and Advancement of Human Values, Conference on Value Inquiry
- Recipient, Sociological Practice Association’s Outstanding Contribution Award
- Recipient, Seventh James Wilbur Award
- Education:
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- PhD, Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, 1958
- Other:
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- None found
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