Dan Wikler
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Ethical philosophy | |
Institutions | National Institute of Mental Health World Health Organization Harvard University |
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Daniel Isaac Wikler (born 1946) is an American public health educator, philosopher, and medical ethicist. He is currently the Mary B. Saltonstall Professor of Population Ethics and Professor of Ethics and Population Health in the Department of Global Health and Population of the
Career
Wikler is the son and third child of the late Abraham and Ada Fay Wikler. He was born and raised in Lexington, Kentucky, where he was graduated from Henry Clay High School.
Wikler earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in
Early career
From 1972 to 1975, he was also awarded a Teaching Fellowship in the Department of Philosophy. He began his career working on
At the
From 1980 to 1981, he served on the President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine in Washington, D.C., as Staff Philosopher for Biomedical and Behavioral Research.
He served as the first staff ethicist for the World Health Organization, and remains a consultant to several WHO programs. Prof. Wikler was co-founder (with Peter Singer and Helga Kuhse) and second president of the International Association of Bioethics and has served on the advisory boards of the Asian Bioethics Association and the Pan American Health Organization (AHO) Regional Program in Bioethics.
While at the World Health Organization, he instituted an international collaboration among philosophers and economists on ethical, methodological, and philosophical issues raised by WHO's work in measurement of the global burden of disease and in developing methods for improving health resource allocation.
Harvard University
Wikler writes, lectures, and advises in bioethics and professional ethics, both internationally and in Greater
He serves on numerous Harvard University and other professional committees and advises several student groups, including the Harvard Undergraduate Bioethics Society (HUBS), sponsor in March 2008 of the National Undergraduate Bioethics Conference.
Until 2010, Wikler was the co-director of the
Personal life
Wikler is married to philosopher Sarah Marchand, and was formerly married to Lynn McDonald,[5] a professor of social work research and United Nations consultant. He has three children: two from his first marriage—his daughter, Ruth Wikler,[6] and eldest son, Ben Wikler, a political executive who has served as Chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin since 2019 and previously worked as a Senior Advisor at MoveOn;[7] and a son, Samuel Marchand, from his second marriage.[8]
See also
Select publications
- Studies in Philosophy and Health Policy (book series published by Cambridge University Press)
- ISBN 0-521-66977-4. 2000.
- PubMed Articles
- Wikler, D. and Cash, R. “Ethical Issues in Global Public Health” In Robert Beaglehole and Ruth Bonita, eds.. Global Public Health, Oxford University Press, 2009
- Wikler, D., "A crisis in medical professionalism: time for Flexner II". In Denis Arnold, ed., Ethics and the Business of Biomedicine, Cambridge University Press, 2009
- Wikler, D., Marchand, S., "Society’s Allocation of Resources for Health". In Kuhse H. and Singer P., A Companion to Bioethics. John Wiley and Sons, 2009
- Brock, D., Wikler, D., Ethical Challenges In Long-Term Funding For HIV/AIDS, Health Affairs 28(6), 2009, 1666–1677
- Schmidt, H., Voigt, K., Wikler, D. Carrots, Sticks, and Health Care Reform — Problems with Wellness Incentives, New England Journal of Medicine (10.1056/NEJMp0911552), 2009
- Cash, R., Wikler, D., Saxena, A., Capron, A. Casebook on Ethical Issues in International Health Research, Geneva: World Health Organization, 2010. Translated into five languages; second edition forthcoming.
In collaboration
- Norman Daniels of HSPH
- Ole Norheim, Bergen, Norway
- Richard A. Cash of HSPH, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
- Till Baernighausen, University of Heidelberg
External links
- Dan Wikler's HSPH Faculty Site
- Full list of important ethics publications, 1977-2013
- Harvard Catalyst Profile for Professor Daniel Wikler - Searchable, with historical timelines of publications and concepts presented.
- The Ethics of the Organ Bazaar, March 28, 2008, HSPH
- Journal of the Norwegian Psychological Association, Vol 46, No. 11, 2009, p. 1077-1081 In the margin ...
- News at HSPH: Health Care Rationed in U.S., HSPH Ethicist Says
References
- ^ The Hastings Center Archived 2016-05-09 at the Wayback Machine Hastings Center Fellows. Accessed November 6, 2010
- Stockholm, Sweden
- ^ Durchen S. A Fine Line: Is it time to reconsider the dead-donor rule? Harvard Medicine Magazine, Autumn 2016, available free online
- ^ Ethical Issues in Global Health Research (EIGHR), Office of Human Research Administration (OHRA) website
- ^ "Oberlin Philosophy, Summer 2015, Volume 5". Oberlin College and Conservatory. 2015-08-01. Archived from the original on 2018-06-23. Retrieved 2022-01-09.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-01-09.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-05-14.
- ^ "Philosophy Newsletters". Oberlin College and Conservatory. 2018-05-24. Retrieved 2022-01-09.