Dan W. Brock

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Dan W. Brock
BornDecember 1937
DiedSeptember 26, 2020(2020-09-26) (aged 82)
Boston, Massachusetts
NationalityAmerican
EducationCornell University
Alma materColumbia University
AwardsLifetime Achievement Award of American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, October 18, 2018
Era20th-21st century
RegionNew England
InstitutionsHarvard Medical School
Main interests
Philosophy, bioethics
Notable ideas
killing vs. letting die

Dan W. Brock (December 1937 – September 26, 2020) was an

Medical Ethics in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, the former Director of the Division of Medical Ethics (now the Center for Bioethics) at the Harvard Medical School, and former Director of the Harvard University
Program in Ethics and Health (PEH).

Education and career

Brock earned his B.A. in economics from Cornell University and his Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University. He taught philosophy for many years at Brown University, where he held the Tillinghast Professorship. He also served as a member of the Department of Clinical Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health.[1][2][3]

He was president of the American Association of Bioethics (AAB)

Hastings Center, a bioethics research institution, served as a board member and received the Henry Knowles Beecher Award for lifetime achievement in bioethics from them.[7]

Dr. Brock retired as a professor in 2014, but remained an editorial board member of 12 professional journals in ethics, bioethics and health policy, and lectured widely at national and international conferences, professional societies, universities, and health care institutions.

Journal of the American Medical Association, September 13, 2016.[9]

The

Anaheim CA, during their 20th Annual Meeting (October 18–21, 2018),[11] when their theme was "The Future is Now: Bioethics and Humanities Re-Imagine an Uncertain World".[12][13][14]

Philosophical work

Dan Brock published over 150 articles and co-authored 6 books relating to bioethics and philosophy and served on numerous editorial boards. He worked with various international organizations on bioethics as a consultant including the World Health Organization and presented papers and talks all over the world.

See also

References

  1. ^ "The Department of Bioethics - Our People". Archived from the original on February 15, 2013. Retrieved October 10, 2009.
  2. ^ The Department of Bioethics – About Us
  3. ^ "The Department of Clinical Bioethics - the Blossoming of Bioethics at NIH". Archived from the original on September 24, 2017. Retrieved October 10, 2009.
  4. ^ "American Society of Bioethics and Humanities History | ASBH".
  5. ^ American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Records, (1998-2001)
  6. ^ a b ASBH History
  7. ^ "Dan Brock Remembered".
  8. ^ "Dan Brock | Center for Bioethics". bioethics.hms.harvard.edu. Retrieved November 18, 2016.
  9. ^ "New Guidelines Enhance Evidence-Based Health Care". Retrieved November 18, 2016.
  10. ^ ASBH website, Lifetime Achievement Award
  11. ^ ASBH website, Past and Future Annual Conferences
  12. ^ ASBH website, Program Theme
  13. ^ Literature, Medicine, Medical Humanities: An MLA Commons site. CFP: Bioethics and Humanities Re-Imagine an Uncertain World (ASBH). January 23, 2018. Thomas Lawrence Long
  14. ^ 2018 Annual Conference, ASBH 2018 Annual Conference

External links

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