Last updated on:
7/29/2009 |
Author: ProCon.org
Dan Brock, PhD Biography
- Title:
- Director of the University Program in Ethics and Health at the Harvard Medical School
- Position:
- Pro to the question "Should Euthanasia or Physician-Assisted Suicide Be Legal?"
- Reasoning:
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“My aim is to increase the light, and perhaps as well as to reduce the heat, on this important subject [euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide] by formulating and evaluating the central ethical arguments for and against voluntary active euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide. My evaluation of the arguments leads me, with reservations to be noted, to support permitting both practices.”
Life and Death: Philosophical Essays in Biomedical Ethics, 1993
- Theoretical Expertise Ranking:
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Experts
Individuals with MDs, JDs, PhDs, or equivalent advanced degrees in fields relevant to end-of-life issues. Also top-level government officials (such as foreign leaders, US presidents, Founding Fathers, Supreme Court Justices, members of legislative bodies, cabinet members, military leaders, etc.) with positions relevant to end-of-life. - Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Director, University Program in Ethics and Health, Harvard Medical School, 2004-present
- Frances Glessner Lee Professor of Medical Ethics, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, 2002-present
- Director, Division of Medical Ethics, Harvard Medical School, 2002-present
- Fellow and Former Board Member, Hastings Center, 1998-present
- Former Senior Scientist and Member, Department of Clinical Bioethics, National Institutes of Health
- Recipient, Eleventh James Wilbur Award for “extraordinary contributions to the appreciation and advancement of human values,” Society for Value Inquiry, 2002
- Charles C. Tillinghast, Jr. University Professor, Brown University, 1997-2002
- Director, Center for Biomedical Ethics, Brown University, 1991-2002
- President, American Association for Bioethics, 1995-1996
- Recipient, John P. McGovern Award for “distinguished contributions to the health sciences,” Association of Academic Health Centers, 1995
- Executive Board Member, American Association of Bioethics, 1993-1997
- Member, Ethics Working Group, White House Task Force on National Health Care Reform, 1993
- President, Rhode Island Philosophical Society, 1991-1992
- Founding Board Member, American Society for Bioethics and Humanities
- Chair, Department of Philosophy, Brown University, 1980-1986
- Staff Philosopher, President’s Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine, 1981-1982
- Education:
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- PhD, Philosophy, Columbia University, 1970
- BA, Economics, Cornell University, 1960
- Other:
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