Patricia King, JD Biography
- Title:
- Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law, Medicine, Ethics, and Public Policy at Georgetown University
- Position:
- Con to the question "Should Euthanasia or Physician-Assisted Suicide Be Legal?"
- Reasoning:
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“While we share many of the concerns and values espoused by proponents of PAS [physician-assisted suicide] and AVE [active voluntary euthanasia], we believe that existing prohibitions on PAS and AVE should be maintained for the forseeable future. Central to our argument is the view that society does not have a sufficient understanding of how and why competent individuals are rendered vulnerable near the end-of-life.”
“Lessons for Physician-Assisted Suicide from the African-American Experience,” Physician Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate, 1998
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law, Medicine, Ethics, and Public Policy, Georgetown University
- Adjunct Professor, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Hygiene and Public Health
- Fellow, The Hastings Center
- Member, The Harvard Corporation
- Vice Chair, Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
- Former Vice Chair, Russell Sage Foundation
- Member, American Law Institute
- Member, Institute of Medicine
- Past Member, Advisory Committee, National Institutes of Health
- Former Advisory Board Member, President’s Commission for the Study of Ethical
- Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research
- Past and Founding Member, ELSI Working Group of the Human Genome Project
- Education:
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- JD, Harvard Law School, 1969
- BA, Wheaton College
- Other:
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- None found