Sidney Callahan, PhD - Euthanasia

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Sidney Callahan, PhD Biography

Title:

Professor and Psychologist

Position:

Con to the question "Should Euthanasia or Physician-Assisted Suicide Be Legal?"

Reasoning:

“Feminist ideals of inclusive justice, caretaking and the interconnectedness of all the living require that we struggle against approving assisted suicide and euthanasia. Let there be no more recruits for the armies of domination and death.”

“A Feminist Cast Against Self-Determined Dying in Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia,” Studies in Prolife Feminism, Sep. 1, 1995

Involvement and Affiliations:

Paul J. McKeever Chair of Moral Theology, St. John’s University, Queens, New York, 2002-2003
Professor of Psychology with Tenure, Mercy College, 1980-1997
Member, Board of Advisors, Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture

Education:

PhD, Social and Personality Psychology, City University of New York
MA, Psychology, Sarah Lawrence College
BA, English, Bryn Mawr College

Other:

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