Susan Wolf, JD Biography
- Title:
- McKnight Presidential Professor of Law, Medicine & Public Policy at the University of Minnesota
- Position:
- Con to the question "Should Euthanasia or Physician-Assisted Suicide Be Legal?"
- Reasoning:
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“Patients’ vulnerability to requesting these fatal interventions because of failures in health care and other background conditions, or because of a desire not to die but to alter circumstances, introduces reasons why we should be reluctant to endorse these practices…
I oppose the legitimation of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia.”
“Gender, Feminism, and Death,” Feminism and Bioethics, 1996
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- McKnight Presidential Professor of Law, Medicine & Public Policy, University of Minnesota
- Faegre & Benson Professor of Law, University of Minnesota
- Professor of Medicine, University of Minnesota
- Faculty Member, Center for Bioethics, University of Minnesota
- Founding Director, Joint Degree Program in Law, Health & the Life Sciences, University of Minnesota
- Founding Chair, Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences, University of Minnesota
- Faculty Chair, Concentration in Health Law & Bioethics, University of Minnesota
- Fellow, The Hastings Center, 1993-Present
- Member, Ethics Committee, American Society for Reproductive Medicine, 2002-2005
- Board of Directors, American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, 2001-04
- Executive Editor, Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology, 2004-Present
- Editorial Board, Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 2002-Present
- Editorial Board, American Journal of Bioethics, 2001-2004
- David Barap Brin Visiting Professor, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 2002
- Medical School Merit Award, University of Minnesota, 1996
- Education:
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- JD, Summa Cum Laude, Yale Law School
- AB, Princeton University
- Other:
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- Jonathan J. King Lectureship, Stanford University Medical Center, 1994
- Fellow, Program in Ethics and the Professions, Harvard University, 1992-1993
- Member, Board of Directors, American Society for Bioethics and Humanities
- Member, Coordinating Group on Bioethics and the Law, American Bar Association
- Member, Medical Ethics Video Advisory Panel, American Medical Association