Rosamond Rhodes, PhD Biography
- Title:
- Professor of Medical Education and Director of Bioethics Education at Mount Sinai School of Medicine
- Position:
- Pro to the question "Should Euthanasia or Physician-Assisted Suicide Be Legal?"
- Reasoning:
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“Sometimes, because of special features of the need, or because of the special relationship, or because of the uniqueness of the knowledge involved, a physician may have a professional obligation to assist in a suicide or perform euthanasia.”
“Physicians, Assisted Suicide, and the Right to Live or Die,” Physician Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate, 1998
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Professor of Medical Education and Director of Bioethics Education, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
- Professor of Philosophy, The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY)
- Member, Mount Sinai Ethics Committees
- Board Member, American Society for Bioethics and Humanities
- Editor, American Philosophical Association, Newsletter on Philosophy and Medicine
- Editorial Board Member, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics
- Editorial Board Member, Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics
- Editorial Board Member, Bioethics/Developing World Bioethics
- Editorial Board Member, Clinical Ethics
- Education:
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- PhD, Philosophy, The Graduate School, CUNY
- Other:
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- None found
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