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CURRICULUM VITAE
Margaret Pabst Battin, M.F.A., Ph.D.Distinguished Professor, Department of Philosophy
Adjunct Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Medical Ethics and HumanitiesUniversity of Utah
Department of Philosophy Date of vita: December 14, 2015CTIHB, Room 423 University of Utah office phone: (801) 581-6608 Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-9156 office fax: (801) 585-5195
home phone: (801) 359-1970 home fax: (801) 359-7029
<[email protected]>Education:
Bryn Mawr College, B.A., magna cum laude with Honors in Philosophy, 1963, including University of Munich, 1961-2
University of California/Irvine, M.F.A. (Fiction Writing), 1973University of California/Irvine, Ph.D. (Philosophy), 1976
Employment: current positions:
Distinguished Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Utah, 2000-Adjunct Professor, Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities, Department of Internal
Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, 1990- past positions:
Instructor, Pitzer College, The Claremont Colleges, Fall 1974Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Utah, 1975-77Assistant Professor, University of Utah, 1977-81; Philosopher-in-Residence,
Veterans Administration Medical Center, Salt Lake, Winter 1981Associate Professor, University of Utah, July 1981-88Professor, University of Utah, 1988-2000
Honors, Fellowships, and Awards:Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 1963-64 (Honorary)National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for Independent Study and
Research, 1977-78Utah Arts Council, First Prize for Book-length Collection of Short Stories, 1981David P. Gardner Curriculum Development Award, University of Utah, Winter
1984National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend 1986University of Utah Faculty Fellow Awards, Spring 1980, Autumn 1988, Autumn
1997, Spring 2002Ramona W. Cannon Award for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities, University
of Utah, co-recipient 1988Spinoza Chair, University of Amsterdam, Academic Medical Center, The
Netherlands, Spring l993Humanities Center Fellowship, University of Utah, l994-95.Annette P. Cumming Community Service Award, Planned Parenthood of Utah,
1994.Distinguished Research Award, University of Utah, 1997.Named Distinguished Professor, University of Utah, 2000.Rosenblatt Prize, University of Utah, 2000
Distinguished Honors Professor, 2002-03Named among the “Mothers of Bioethics,” 2007.University Professorship (with A. Lipman, E. Luna), 2007-2008
Publications:
Books: Ethical Issues in Suicide, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, first
version 1982; revised and expanded version, trade-titledThe Death Debate, 1995.
Suicide: The Philosophical Issues, edited by Margaret P. Battin and David J. Mayo. New York: St. Martin's, 1980; London: Peter Owen, Ltd., 1981.
John Donne, Biathanatos, a modern-spelling critical edition, edited by Michael Rudick and Margaret P. Battin. New York: Garland
Publishing Company, 1982.
Should Medical Care be Rationed by Age?, edited by Timothy Smeeding with Margaret P. Battin, Leslie P. Francis, and Bruce M.
Landesman, Totowa, N.J.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1987.
Puzzles About Art: An Aesthetics Casebook, by Margaret P. Battin, Anita Silvers, Ronald Moore, and John Fisher. New York: St. Martin's
Press, 1989.
Ethical Issues in the Professions, by Peter Y. Windt, Peter C. Appleby, Margaret P. Battin, Leslie P. Francis, and Bruce M. Landesman.
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1989.
Ethics in the Sanctuary: Examining the Practices of Organized Religion. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1990.
Changing to National Health Care: The Ethical Issues, edited by Robert P.Huefner and Margaret P. Battin, Salt Lake City: The University
of Utah Press, 1992. The Least Worst Death: Essays in Bioethics on the End of Life, Oxford
University Press, 1994. Translated into Spanish by Laura Manriquez as La menos mala
de las muertes, Mexico, Buenos Aires, Barcelona: Paidós, 2006.
The Death Debate: Ethical Issues in Suicide. Trade version of EthicalIssues in Suicide, 1982, revised 1995. Upper Saddle River, NJ:
Prentice-Hall, 1996.
Physician-Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate, edited by Margaret P. Battin, Rosamond Rhodes and Anita Silvers. New York:
Routledge, 1998.
Praying for a Cure: When Medical and Religious Practices Conflict, by Peggy DesAutels, Margaret P. Battin, and Larry May. Lanham,
MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999.
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Medicine and Social Justice: Essays on the Distribution of Health Care, Rosamond Rhodes, Margaret P. Battin, and Anita Silvers, eds.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2002, second edition 2012.
The Case for Physician-Assisted Dying: The Right to Excellent End-of-Life Care and Patient Choice, Timothy Quill and Margaret P. Battin, eds., Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.
Ending Life: Ethics and the Way We Die. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Ethics and Infectious Disease, edited by Michael J. Selgelid, Margaret P.Battin, and Charles B. Smith. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006.
Death, Dying, and the Ending of Life, edited by Margaret P. Battin, LeslieP. Francis, and Bruce L. Landesman. International Library of Medicine, Ethics, and Law. Ashgate, 2007.
Drugs and Justice: Seeking a Consistent, Coherent, ComprehensiveView, by Margaret P. Battin, Erik Luna, Arthur G. Lipman, Paul M.Gahlinger, Douglas E. Rollins, Jeannette Roberts, and Troy L. Booher. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
The Patient as Victim and Vector: Ethics and Infectious Disease, by Margaret P. Battin, Leslie P. Francis, Jay A. Jacobson, and CharlesB. Smith. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
The Ethics of Suicide: Historical Sources. Oxford University Press, inLibrary/Press partnership with J. Willard Marriot Library at the
University of Utah for associated online Digital Archive, 2015.
Journal Issues Guest-edited:Suicide and Ethical Theory, edited by Margaret P. Battin and Ronald Maris,
special issue of Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, Vol. 13, No. 4 (Winter 1983); also published as an independent
volume by Human Sciences Press, 1983.
Legal Euthanasia: Ethical Issues in an Era of Legalized Aid in Dying, edited by Margaret P. Battin and Thomas J. Bole, III, special issue of The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, Vol. 18, No. 3 (June l993).
Drug Use in Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia, edited by Margaret P. Battinand Arthur J. Lipman, two special double issues of the Journal of
Pharmaceutical Care in Pain & Symptom Control, nos. 3 and 4, 1995, and nos. 1 and 2, 1996 ; also published as an
independent volume, Binghamton NY: Pharmaceutical Products Press, Haworth Press, 1996.
Ethics and Infectious Disease, edited by Michael J. Selgelid and Margaret P.
Battin, Special issue of Bioethics, Vol. 19, no. 4, August 2005.
Books in Progress:
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Sex & Consequences: Changing the Default Mechanism in Human Reproduction.On the conflict between population growth control and reproductivefreedom; expected completion date 2016.
Puzzles About Disability, by Adrienne Asch, Margaret P. Battin, Teresa Blankenmeyer Burke, Gretchen Case, Leslie Francis, and Anita
Silvers, under contract, Oxford University Press; expected completion date 2016.
Journal Articles or Articles in Collections:"Aristotle's Definition of Tragedy in the Poetics," The Journal of Aesthetics and
Art Criticism, Part I: Vol. XXXIII, No. 2, Winter 1974; Part II: Vol. XXXIII No. 3, Spring 1975.
"Plato on True and False Poetry," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Vol. XXXVI, No. 2, Winter 1977.
"Exact Replication in the Visual Arts," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Vol. XXXVIII, No. 2, Winter 1979.
"Manipulated Suicide," Bioethics Quarterly, Vol. 2, No. 2, Summer 1980, and in Battin & Mayo volume, above.
"The Least Worst Death: Selective Refusal of Treatment," The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 13, No. 2, April 1983, pp. 13-16.
"Telling Confessions: Confidentiality and the Practice of Religion," Sunstone, Vol. 8, No. 6, Nov.-Dec. 1983, pp. 23-33.
"Applied Professional Ethics and Institutional Religion: The Methodologi-cal Issues," The Monist, Vol. 67, No. 4, 1984.
"Non-Patient Decision-Making in Medicine: The Eclipse of Altruism," The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, Vol. 10, 1985, pp. 19-44.
"The Dreariness of Aesthetics (Continued), With a Remedy," Journal of Aesthetic Education, Vol. 20, Number 4, Winter 1986; reprinted
as "Case Problems in Aesthetics," in Aesthetics and Arts Education, ed. Ralph A. Smith and Alan Simpson,Urbana and Chicago: Univ. of Illinois Press, l99l.
"Euthanasia," in Health Care Ethics: An Introduction, Donald VanDeVeer and Tom Regan, eds., Temple University Press, 1987.
"Choosing the Time to Die: The Ethics and Economics of Suicide in Old Age," in Ethical Dimensions of Geriatric Care: Value Conflicts
for the 21st Century, I. Lawson, S. Spicker, and S. Ingram, eds. Philosophy and Medicine Symposium Series No. 18,
Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1987. "Age-Rationing and the Just Distribution of Health Care: Is There a Duty to
Die?" Ethics, Vol. 97, No. 2, January 1987. Reprinted in Bioethics News (Australia), Vol. 7, No. 1, Oct. 1987; and
in TheMoral Life, Steven Luper-Foy and Curtis Brown, eds., Holt,
Rinehard and Winston, l992."Lessons from Ethics: Case-driven Aesthetics and Approaches to Theory,"
in T. Anderberg, T. Nilstun, and I. Persson, eds., Aesthetic Distinction: Essays Presented to Goran Hermeren on
his 50th Birthday, Lund, Sweden; Lund University Press, 1988.
"High-Risk Religion," Philosophic Exchange, (double issue #19-20, 1988-89, pp. 25-70, (chapter 3 of Ethics in the Sanctuary, above).
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"Organized Religion: New Target for Professional Ethics?" Journal of Social Philosophy, Vol. 20, Nos. 1 and 2, June 1989.
"Euthanasia: The Way We Do It, The Way They Do It," Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, Vol. 6, No. 5, July l99l; rev. version inHealth Care Ethics, Monagle and Thomasma, eds., Gaithersburg:Aspen Publishers, l994; also reprinted in Biomedical Ethics, ed.Thomas A. Mappes and David DeGrazia, McGraw-Hill, 1995.
"Rational Suicide? How Can We Respond to a Request for Help?" Crisis (Journal of the International Association for Suicide Prevention)
l2:2 (l99l). "Euthanasia in Alzheimer's Disease?" in Dementia and Aging: Ethics,
Values, and Policy Choices, Robert Binstock, Stephen Post, and Peter J. Whitehouse, eds., Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1993."Dying in 559 Beds: Efficiency, "Best Buys," and the Ethics of
Standardization in National Health Care," Journal of Medicine and Philosophy,17(l); 59-77 (l992); also in Huefner and Battin,
below."Voluntary Euthanasia and the Risks of Abuse: Can We Learn Anything
from the Netherlands?" Law Medicine, and Health Care 20:1-2:133-143 (Spring/Summer, 1992).
"Assisted Suicide: Can We Learn from Germany?" The Hastings Center Report 22(2):44-51 (March-April 1992).
"Intergenerational Justice, Political Conflict, and the Prudential LifespanSolution in Health Care," in Economic Security and Intergenerational Justice: A Look at North America, ed. Theodore R. Marmor, Timothy M. Smeeding, and Vernon Greene.
Washington D.C.: The Urban Institute Press, 1994."Suicidology and the Right to Die," in Suicidology: Essays in Honor of
Edwin S. Shneidman, ed. Antoon Leenaars. Northvale, N.J.:Jason Aronson, l993.
"Is There a Place for Euthanasia in America's Care for the Elderly?" inChoosing Who's to Live: Ethics and Aging, James W. Walters ed.,Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, l996, pp. 49-71.
"Cases for Kids: Using Puzzle Cases to Teach Aesthetics to Children,"Journal of Aesthetic Education, Vol 28, no. 3 (Fall 1994), pp. 89- 104; reprinted in Aesthetics for Young People, ed. Ronald Moore,National Art Education Association, 1995.
"Reading Religions: A Reply to Callahan, Martin, and Quinn," ProfessionalEthics, Vol. 3, no. 2, 1994; response in symposium on my bookEthics in the Sanctuary.
"Physicians, Partners, and People with AIDS: Deciding about Suicide,"Crisis (Journal of the International Association for SuicidePrevention), Vol. 15, no. 1, l994.
"Going Early, Going Late: The Rationality of Decisions about Suicide inAIDS," Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, December 1994;
reprinted in Udo Shüklenk, ed., AIDS, Society, Ethics and Law, a volume in the series International Librarty of Medicine, Ethics and Law, Aldershot, UK, and Burlington, Vt., USA, Ashgate
Publishing Ltd., forthcoming 2001."A Dozen Caveats Concerning the Discussion of Euthanasia in the
Netherlands," in Jonathan Moreno, ed., Arguing EuthanasiaNew York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.
"The Least Worst Death: Selective Refusal of Treatment, Physician-AssistedSuicide, and Euthanasia" (updated version of 1983 paper), Vorträgedes Internationalen Kongresses "Das Gewissen der Medizin," April
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` 1993, Österreichische Gesellschaft für Gesundheitsökonomie (Vienna), Gesundheits-Oeconomica, 1995. pp. 161-169.
"Color y Cultura: La anticoncepcion automatica y su impacto en la poblacionurbana negra norteamericana y en la de paises en desarrollo,”Perspectivas Bioéticas en las Americas, vol. 2, no. 1, 1997, pp.64-92 (translated).
“Sex and Consequences: World Population Growth versus ReproductiveRights,” Philosophic Exchange, 1997.
“Suicide and Rights,” in John Donnelly, ed., Suicide: Right or Wrong?Amherst, NY: Promethus, 1998, pp. 283-299, abridged from Battin, Ethical Issues in Suicide, above.
"Physician-Assisted Suicide: Does the Physician Have an Obligation to Help?" in Regulating How We Die: Ethical, Medical, and Legal
Issues Surrounding Physician-Assisted Suicide , ed. Linda Emanuel, MD, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
Press, 1998.“Population,” in Peter Singer and Helga Kuhse, eds., Companion to
Bioethics, 2nd edition. Oxford: Blackwells, 1999.“Physician-Assisted Suicide: Safe, Legal, and Rare?” In Battin, Rhodes
and Silvers, eds., Physician-Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate., New York: Routledge, 1998 (above).
“Genetic Information and Knowing When You Will Die,” in A. Thompson and R. Chadwick, eds., Genetic Information: Acquisition,
Access, and Control (New York: Plenum, 1999).“What are the Potential Cost Savings from Legalizing Physician-Assisted
Suicide?” by Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Margaret P. Battin, New England Journal of Medicine 339(3):167-172 (July 16, 1998)
“Global Life Expectancies and the Duty to Die,” in James M. Humber and Robert F. Almeder, eds., Biomedical Ethics Reviews, special
issue “Is There a Duty to Die?” Totowa, NJ: Humana Press, 1999,pp. 1-22.
“On the Structure of the Euthanasia Debate: Observations Provoked by a Near-Perfect For-and-Against Book.” Review Symposium on
Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide, Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law 25(2):415-430 (April 2000).
“The Euthanasia Debate in the United States: Conflicting Claims About the Netherlands,” in Hans Krabbendam and Hans-Martien ten Napel,
eds.,Regulating Morality: A Comparison of the Role of the State in Mastering the Mores in the Netherlands and the United States
(Antwerpen-Apeldoorn: E. M. Meijers Institute, Maklu-Uitgevers, 2000), pp. 151-171.
“Safe, Legal, Rare? Physician-Assisted Suicide and Cultural Change in the Future” (revised and expanded version of “Physician-Assisted
Suicide: Safe, Legal, Rare?, above) in both: Loretta Kopelman and Kenneth DeVille, eds, Physician-Assisted Suicide (Kluwer,
2001).pp. 187-201, and in: Diego DeLeo, ed., Suicide and
Euthanasia in Older Adults: A Transcultural Journey, Seattle-Toronto-Bern-Göttingen: Hogrefe & Huber Publishers,
2001. In Italian in Questioni di fine vita. Riflessioni bioetiche al femminile, edited by Carla Faralli and Silvia Zullo. Bononia University Press, 2008.
“New Life in the Assisted-Death Debate in the US: Scheduled Drugs vs. NuTech,” in Albert Klijn, Margaret Otlowski, and Margo
Trappenburg, eds., Regulating Physician-Negotiated Death (special issue of Recht der Werkelijkheid, Journal of the
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Dutch/Flemish Association for Socio-Legal Studies, ‘s-Gravenhage, Elsevier, 2001, pp. 49-63.
“Empirical Research in Bioethics: The Method of ‘Oppositional Collaboration,’” Notizie di Politeia (Italy), 18:67 (2002):15-19.
“Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide,” chapter in Oxford Handbook of Practical Ethics, ed. Hugh LaFollette , Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
“Bioethics,” lead article for section on bioethics, Blackwell Companion to Applied Ethics, ed. R.G. Frey and Christopher Health Wellman, Blackwell, 2003.
“The Ethics of Self-Sacrifice: What’s Wrong with Suicide Bombing?”Archives of Suicide Research, vol. 8(1):29-36 (2004).
“On Conjectures About Extra Long Life: The Central ProblematicAssumption. Comment on Alex Capron.” In H. Aaron and W.Schwartz, Coping With Methuselah, Washington DC: BrookingsInstitution Press, 2004.
“Religion and Psychiatry,” by Brooke Hopkins and Margaret P. Battin, in Jennifer Radden, ed., The Philosophy of Psychiatry, Oxford University Press, 2004, pp. 312-326.
“July 4, 1826: Explaining the Same-Day Deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson,” Historically Speaking (The Bulletin of the Historical Society), vol. 6, no. 6, July/August 2005 (based on chapter from Ending Life).
“Legal Physician-Assisted Dying in Oregon and the Netherlands: EvidenceConcerning the Impact on Patients in ‘Vulnerable’ Groups,” byMargaret P. Battin, Agnes van der Heide, Linda Ganzini, Gerrit van der Wal, and Bregje D. Onwuteaka-Philipsen, Journal of Medical Ethics 33(10):591-97( October 2007).
“Terminal Sedation: Pulling the Sheet Over Our Eyes,” Hastings Center Report 38(5), September/October 2008, pp. 27-30.
“Physician-Assisted Death: Not Just for Rich Countries,” Johannes J.M. van Delden and Margaret P. Battin, in Ronald Green, Donovan, and Steven
Jauss, eds., Global Bioethics: Issues of Conscience for the 21st
Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2009.“Physician-Assisted Dying and the Slippery Slope: The Challenge of Empirical
Evidence,” Willamette Law Review 45:1, Fall 2008, pp. 91-136.“Vulnerability and the ‘slippery slope’ at the end-of-life: A qualitative study of
euthanasia, general practice and home death in the Netherlands,” by Frances Norwood, Gerrit Kimsma, and Margaret P. Battin. Family Practice, 2009 Dec; 26(6):472-80.
“A Dignidade Humana e as Pessoas Muito Idosas” (translated into Portuguese),in O Tempo da Vida, Fórum Gulbenkian de Saúde sobre o
Envelhecimento 2008/2009. Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian. Parede, Portugal: Principia Editora, 2009, pp. 287-305.
“The Irony of Supporting Physician-Assisted Suicide: A Personal Account,” Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 2010 Nov. 13(4):403-11.
“Justice in Planning for Pandemics and Disasters,” by Leslie P. Francis andMargaret P. Battin, in Medicine and Social Justice: Essays
on the Distribution of Health Care, Rosamond Rhodes, Margaret P. Battin, and Anita Silvers, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, second edition 2012.
“Continuous Sedation Until Death: Moral justifications of physicians and nurses—a content analysis of opinion pieces,” by Sam Rhys, Freddy Mortier, LucDeliens, Reginald Deschepper, Margaret Pabst Battin, Johan Bilsen,Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, October 2012.
“The Ethics of Suicide: Philosophical and Religious Perspectives,” in Understanding and Preventing Suicide, James R. Rogers and
David Lester, eds. New York: Praeger, 2013.
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"Terminal sedation: Recasting a metaphor as the ars moriendi changes," in Sigrid Sterckx, Kasper Raus, and Freddy Mortier,
eds., Continuous Sedation at the End of Life. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013, pp. 240-249.
“Could We Reduce Racism with One Easy Dip? What a Thought-Experiment about Race-Color Change Makes Us See,” in John Coggon,
Sarah Chan, Søren Holm, and Thomasine Kushner (eds), in From Reason to Practice in Bioethics: An anthology dedicated to the words of John Harris. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015, pp. 170-180.
“Ethical Issues in Palliative Care for Older People,” by Jennifer S. Shaw and Margaret P. Battin, in Lieve Van den Block, Gwenda Albers,
Sandra Pereira, Bregje Onwuteaka-Philipsen, Roeline Pasman, Luc Deliens, Palliative Care for Older People: A Public Health Perspective. Oxford University Press, in press, 2015.
“Population Growth and Decline: Issues of Justice,” in Routledge Companion to Bioethics, ed. John Arras, Rebecca Kukla, Elizabeth Fenton.
New York and London: Routledge, 2015, pp. 403-416.“Goodbye, Thomas: The Case for Physician-Assisted Dying.’ In Stuart
Youngner and Robert M. Arnold, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Ethics at the End of Life, Oxford University Press, in press, 2015.
“Responding to Requests for Physician Aid in Dying,” by Timothy Quill and Margaret P. Battin, entry in UpToDate 2015. [online reference
service for physicians], 2015.
Encyclopedia Entries: Entry "Suicide," Encyclopedia of Ethics (Garland), 1992; 2nd edition
(Routledge), 2001, vol. 2, pp. 1668-1672.Entry "Suicide," Encyclopedia of Bioethics (Macmillan), 1995.Entry "Suicide," Dictionnaire de philosophie morale (Presses Universitaires
de France), 1997. Sidebar, “Physician-Assisted Suicide,” Encarta Encyclopedia.
Entry “Suicide: Ethical Aspects of,” in International Encyclopedia of Social
and Behavioral Sciences, Elsevier Science Ltd., 2001.Entry, “Suicide and Assisted Suicide, Ethical Aspects, ” in Macmillan
Encyclopedia of Aging, April 2002. Entry, “Suicide,” Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd edition, forthcoming.Entry, “Contraception,” Encyclopedia of Sex & Gender.Entry, “Altruistic Suicide,” Encyclopedia of Death and the Human Experience.Entry, “Bioethics,” International Encyclopedia of Ethics, 4th edition, Wiley-
Blackwell.
Papers and notes from the Division of Medical Ethics and elsewhere:Jacobson JA, White BE, Battin MP, Botkin JR, Francis LP, Green DJ,
Kasworm ES, "Patients' Understanding and Use of AdvanceDirectives," Western Journal of Medicine 160(3):232-236 (1994).
Jacobson JA, Kasworm ES, Battin MP, Botkin JR, Francis LP, Green DJ,"Decedents' Reported Preferences for Physician-Assisted Death: A
Survey of Informants Listed on Death Certificates in Utah," Journal
of Clinical Ethics 6(2):149-157 (1995).Jacobson JA, Kasworm ES, Battin MP, Francis LP, Green DJ, Botkin JR,
Johnson S, "Advance Directives in Utah: Information from Death
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Certificates and Informants," Archives of Internal Medicine, inpress, 1996.
Battin MP, Botkin JR, Francis LP, Jacobson JA, “Quick Easy Questionsfor Analyzing Medical Ethics Cases,” American PhilosophicalAssociation Newsletter on Philosophy and Medicine 97:1, Fall
1997.Murphy GD, Schenkenberg T., Hunter JS, Battin MP, “Advance
Directives: A Computer Assisted Approach to Assuring Patients’ Rights and Compliance with PSDA and JCAHO Standards,” HEC
Forum 1997. Jacobson, JA, Francis LP, Battin MP, Green DJ, Grammes C, VanRiper J,
Gully J, “Dialogue to Action: Lessons Learned from Some Family Members of Deceased Patients at an Interactive Program in
Seven Utah Hospitals,” Journal of Clinical Ethics 8:4 (1998): 359-371.Smith CB, Battin MP, Jacobson JA, Francis LP, Botkin J, Asplund EP, Domek GJ, Hawkins B, “Are There Characteristics of Infectious Diseases that Raise Special Ethical Issues? Journal of Developing World Bioethics, 4:1(May 2004).
Pearlman RA, Hsu C, Starks H, Back AL, Gordon JR, Bharucha A, Koenig BA, Battin MP. Motivations for physician-assisted suicide: Patient and family voices. J Gen Int Med, 2005; 20(3):234-39.
Smith CB, Battin MP, Jacobson JA, Francis LP, Botkin J, Asplund EP, Domek GJ, Hawkins B, “Are There Characteristics of Infectious Diseases that Raise Special Ethical Issues? Developing World Bioethics, 4:1 (May 2004);1-16.
Jay A. Jacobson MD, Margaret P. Battin PhD, Jeffrey Botkin MD, Leslie P. Francis JD PhD, James O. Mason MD, Charles B. Smith MD, “Vertical Transmission of Genetic and Infectious Disease,” in Angus Dawson and Marcel Verweij, eds., Ethics, Prevention, and Public Health, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2007, pp. 145-159.
Leslie P. Francis, Margaret P. Battin, Jeffrey R. Botkin, Jay A. Jacobson, Charles B. Smith, “Infectious Disease And The Ethics Of Research: The Moral Significance Of Communicability,” in Matti Häyry, Tuija Takala and Peter Herissone-Kelly, eds., Ethics in Biomedical Research: International Perspectives. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2007.
Leslie P. Francis, Margaret P. Battin, Jay A. Jacobson, Charles B. Smith, Jeffrey Botkin, “How Infectious Disease Got Left Out—and What This Omission Might Have Meant for Bioethics,” Bioethics, special issue on ethics and infectious disease, ed. Selgelid and Battin, also in Selgelid, Battin, and Smith, eds., Ethics and Infectious Disease, Blackwell, 2006.
Charles B. Smith MD, Margaret P. Battin PhD, Larry Reimer MD, Leslie P. Francis PhD JD, Jay A. Jacobson MD, “Should Rapid Tests for HIV Infection Now Be Mandatory During Pregnancy? Global Differences in Scarcity and a Dilemma of Technological Advance,” Developing World Bioethics, special issue, Reproductive Health Ethics: Latin American Perspectives, ed. Debora Diniz, Florencia Luna, and Juan Guillermo Figueroa, forthcoming 2007.
Margaret P. Battin PhD, Leslie P. Francis, PhD JD, Charles B. Smith, MD,Jay A. Jacobson, MD, “The Patient as Victim and Vector: The Challenge of Infectious Disease,” in R. Rhodes, A. Silvers, L. Francis, Blackwell Guide to Medical Ethics, New York: Blackwell, 2007.
Margaret P. Battin, Linda Carr-Lee, Leslie P. Francis, Jay A. Jacobson, Charles B. Smith, “The Patient as Victim and Vector: Bioethics and the Challenge of Infectious Disease” in Principles of Health Care Ethics (second edition), edited by Richard Ashcroft, Angus Dawson, Heather Draper,John McMillan. Wiley, April 2007.
Leslie P. Francis, Margaret P. Battin, Jay A. Jacobson, Charles B. Smith,
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“Closing the Book on Infectious Disease: The MischievousConsequences for Bioethics and for Public Health,” in Angus Dawson,ed., The Philosophy of Public Health, Farnham, UK and Burlington VT:Ashgate, 2009, pp. 155-170.
Margaret P. Battin, Charles B. Smith, Larry Reimer, Jay A. Jacobson, Leslie P. Francis, “Universal Rapid Testing for Infectious Disease in Airports and Places of Public Contact: A Thought Experiment about the Ethical Challenges,” in Cutting Though the Surface: Philosophical Approaches to Bioethics (Festschrift for Matti Häyry), ed. Tuija Takala, Peter Herrisone-Kelly, and Søren Holm. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2009, pp. 121-133.
Leslie P. Francis, Margaret P. Battin, Jay A. Jacobson, Charles B. Smith, “Syndromic Surveillance and Patients as Victims and Vectors,” Bioethical Inquiry 6:187-195; also in Michael J. Selgelid, Angela McLean, Nimalan Arinaminpathy, Julian Savulescu, eds., Infectious Disease Ethics: Limiting Liberty in Contexts of Contagion. Springer Science + Business Media B.V, 2011, pp. 123-131.
Student co-authored papers:Christopher Peterson and Margaret P. Battin, "Gender Roles and Male
Contraception," Journal of Undergraduate Research, Universityof Utah, Vol. 6, no. 1, Nov. 1995, pp. 17-24.
Julia Kotlyar and Margaret P. Battin, "Abortion in Russia," Journal ofUndergraduate Research, University of Utah, 1996.
Margaret P. Battin and Ryan Spellecy, “What Kind of Freedom? Szasz’s Misleading Perception of Physician-Assisted Suicide,” in Jeffrey A. Schaler, ed., Szasz Under Fire: The Psychiatric Abolitionist Faces His Critics. Open Court, 2004, pp. 277-290.
Gordon B. Mower and Margaret P. Battin, “The Columbia Shuttle Disaster: Should We Have Told the Astronauts the Truth?” in Teaching Ethics: The Journal of the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum, vol. 4, no. 1, Fall 2003, pp. 89-92, reprinted in Joanne B Ciulla, Clancy Martin, Robert C. Solomon, Honest Work: A Business Ethics Reader. New York: Oxford 2007, pp. 100-101.
Xianduan Shi and Margaret P. Battin, Review of Behind the Silence: Chinese Voices on Abortion, by Nie Jing-Bao. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.
Reviews and Book Notes:Review of G.N. Giordano Orsini's Organic Unity in Ancient and Later Poetics,
The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Vol. XXXV, No. 2, Winter 1976.
Review of William H. Gass' On Being Blue, Quarterly West, Spring/Summer, 1977.
Review, with Louis Borgenicht, M.D., of Clinical Ethics: A Practical Approach to Ethical Decisions in Clinical Medicine, by Jonsen, Siegler, and Winslade, The Journal of Family Practice, Vol. 18, No. 1, 1984.
Review of Richard Sherlock, Preserving Life: Public Policy and the Life Not Worth Living (Loyola Univ. Press, 1987), Utah Humanities News, Feb. 1988.
Review of Robert Campbell and Diane Collinson, Bioethics, Vol. 4, No. 2, April 1990.
"The Best of the Baroque," review of Norman Daniels, Am I My Parents' Keeper? (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), Hastings Center Report, March/April, 1990.
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Review of Suicide and Euthanasia, Baruch Brody, ed., in Newsletter of the European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care No. 9, Nov. 1990.
Book Note for To Die or Not to Die? Cross-Disciplinary, Cultural, and Legal Perspectives on the Right to Choose Death, Arthur S. Berger and Joyce Berger, Eds. (New York: Praeger, 1990), Ethics, July 1992.
Book Note for Ethics and Aging, Nancy Jecker, ed., Humana Press, 1991), Ethics, 1993.
Book Note for Death Ethics: Religious and Cultural Values in Prolongingand Ending Life, by Kenneth L. Vaux (Philadelphia: Trinity Press,l992), Ethics, July 1994, pp. 927-928.
Book review for A Midwife Through the Dying Process, by Timothy Quill, M.D. (Johns Hopkins, 1996), The New England Journal of Medicine July 19, 1997.
Book Note for Textbook of Healthcare Ethics, by Erich H. Loewy, M.D.(Plenum, 1996), Ethics, April 1998.
Review of False Hopes: Why America’s Quest for Perfect Health Is aRecipe for Failure, by Daniel Callahan (New York: Simon &Schuster, 1998), in The Washington Monthly, June 1998, pp. 48-50.
Review Essay, “On the Structure of the Euthanasia Debate: Observations Provoked by a For-and-Against Book" review of Gerald
Dworkin, Raymond Frey, and Sissela Bok, Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide (Cambridge University Press, 1998), and other work. Review Symposium on Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide, Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law 25(2) (April, 2000):415-430 (April 2000).
Review of Angels of Death: Exploring the Euthanasia Underground, byRoger S. Magnusson (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002), inThe New England Journal of Medicine 348;21:2162-64 (May 22,2003).
Review of Euthanasia and Law in Europe, by John Griffiths, Heleen Weyers,and Maurice Adams (Portland, OR: Hart Publ, 2008), in New EnglandJournal of Medicine 360:1915, Apr. 30, 2009.
Review of C. G. Prado, Choosing to Die: Elective Death and Multiculturalism (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008),
in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, published online September 2009.
Comments, Case Studies, Short Articles, Notes, etc."Simultaneous Cardiac Arrests," Case and Comment, The Hastings Center
Report, Vol. 12, No. 2, April 1982. "On the Relationship between Suicide-Prevention and Suicide-Advocacy
Groups," appears as article in Hemlock Quarterly, Issue 6, Jan. 1982, and as Letter to the Editor in Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, Vol. 12, No. 4, Winter 1982.
"Mrs. Bouvia Challenges Law, Medicine, and Morality," Hemlock Quarterly 15:4-6, April 1984.
"Professional Ethics and the Practice of Religion: A Philosopher's View," in Ethical Issues in the Practice of Ministry, ed. J. Boyajian, Minneapolis, MN: United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, 1984.
Case Comments, "Manipulative Patient, Irresponsible Family, and Nursing Home 'Dump,'" in Ethics in Emergency Medicine, Kenneth V.
Iserson, Arthur B. Sanders, Deborah R. Mathieu, and Allen S. Buchanan, eds., Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins,1986.
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"Why the Slippery Slope Isn't Slippery: A Reply to Walter Weber on the Right to Die," Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, Vol. 18, No. 2, Summer 1988, pp. 189-193.
AIDS, Psychiatry, and Euthanasia," by Stephen K. Yarnell, M.D., and Margaret P. Battin, Psychiatric Annals, 18 (10) 589ff., October 1988.
"The Contributions of Aesthetics," in Research Readings for Discipline-Based Art Education, ed. Stephen Mark Dobbs, Reston, Va.:National Art Education Association, l988.
"Suicide Prevention Centres Fail the Elderly," Current Awareness Bulletin of the Suicide Information and Education Centre (Calgary, Canada), Vol. 3, No. 3, Summer 1988.
Case Commentary, "The Chair and Other Public Space," in Everyday Ethics: Resolving Dilemmas in Nursing Home Life, Rosalie A. Kane and Arthur L. Caplan, eds., New York: Springer, 1990.
"Seven Caveats Concerning the Discussion of Euthanasia in.Holland," Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 34 (1) Autumn 1990; also in Newsletter of the American Philosophical Association Committee on Philosophy and Medicine, 1990.
"Can We Copy the Dutch? Can Holland's Practice of Voluntary Euthanasia Be a Model for the United States?" in Controversies in the Care
of Dying Patients, Robert I. Misbin and Ray Mosely, eds., SUNY Press, 1993.
"Holland and Home: On the Exportability of Dutch Euthanasia Practices," in Right to Self- Determination, Aycke O. A. Smook and Be de Vos-Schippers, eds., Amsterdam: Free University Press, 1990. "Physician-Assisted Suicide--Yes, but in the V.A.?" Newsletter of the Northwest Ethics Center for Veterans Health Care, Aug. 1992, 8-9.
Case Comment: "The Case of Nicole: Suicide and Terminal Illness,"Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior 23(1), Spring l993.
"Philosophy as Flash and Character Flaw," in David D. Karnos and Robert G. Shoemaker, eds., Falling in Love with Wisdom: American Philosophers Talk About their Calling. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993, pp. 239-242.
"Aesthetics: Threats and Strengths as Disciplinary Issues," American Society for Aesthetics Newsletter, Winter l993, pp. 5-7.
"Seven (More) Caveats Concerning the Discussion of Euthanasia in the Netherlands," Newsletter of the American Philosophical AssociationCommittee on Philosophy and Medicine 92(1):76-80 (Spring l993).
"Put Up or Shut Up? A Reply to Peggy DesAutels' Defense of ChristianScience," Journal of Social Philosophy, Vol 26, no. 3, Winter1995, pp. 113-122.
"Should Older People Have the Right to Commit Suicide?" debate andreply, in Lenard W. Kaye and Andrew Scharlach, eds.,
Controversial Issues in Aging, New York: Allyn and Bacon, 1996."A Better Approach to Adolescent Pregnancy" (invited editorial), Social
Science & Medicine 41, no. 9 (1995), 1203-1205.Roundtable, focus article, “Adolescent Pregnancy: When it is a problem,
what is the solution?” Reproductive Health Matters, vol. 4, no. 8, Nov. 1996, entire roundtable pp. 110-120.
“Rational Suicide,” (reworking of chapter from 1982 book Ethical Issuesin Suicide), in Contemporary Perspectives on Rational Suicide, ed.James L. Werth, Jr., New York: Taylor & Francis, 1999.
Foreword to Assisted Suicide: Canadian Perspectives, ed. C.G. Prado, Ottawa University Press, 2000.
Case study, Pain Medicine, September 2005. “The Patient as Victim and Vector: The Significance of Contagious, Infectious
Disease for Bioethics”,” Leslie Pickering Francis, Margaret P. Battin, Jay
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A. Jacobson, and Charles B. Smith, ASBH Exchange, newsletter of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, vol. 9, no. 1, Winter 2006. pp. 1, 4-5.
“Right Question, But Not Quite the Right Answer: Whether There Is a ThirdAlternative in Choices about Euthanasia in Alzheimer’s Disease,”Open Peer Commentary, American Journal of Bioethics 7(4), 2007.
Commentary on “Defending Patient Autonomy: The Case of the Challenging Spouse,” Journal of Pain & Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy, vol. 23(4)2009, p. 372.
Perspective: “Thinking All Wrong about How You Die,” Hastings Center Report, July-August, 2015.
Fiction:
"Indian Red," Irvine Humanities Review, 1973. "The Sisters," in Bitches and Sad Ladies, Pat Rotter, ed., Harper's
Magazine Press, 1975, reprinted in Denmark."Terminal Procedure," American Review, 1975. Reprinted in The Best
American Short Stories 1976, ed. Martha Foley, Houghton Mifflin, 1976; also in Ending Life, 2005 (see above).
"The Laboratory Animal," Playgirl, October 1976."Dead Slow," Quarterly West, November 1976. Honor Roll, The Best
American Short Stories 1977, ed. Martha Foley. Reprinted in Sweden, South Africa, England, also Network, Sept.
1982."After a Long Flirtation," Playgirl, November 1977. Reprinted in England,
Germany."The Man in the Window Seat," Damerndas Warld (Denmark), 1979."The Astonishing Possibilities of Love," Western Humanities Review, Vol.
36, No. 3, Autumn 1982.“Robeck,” written 1977-78, in Ending Life, 2005 (see above).
Significant Media Coverage:
TEDMED, “Choosing the Least Worst Death,” stage presentation Sept. 12, 2014, available under “Peggy Battin” at www. ted med.com/ talks /show?
id=309088 or www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtkHnUeNEp4
Robin Marantz Henig, “A Life or Death Situation,” New York Times Magazine, July 21, 2013
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/21/magazine/a-life-or-death-situation.html?hp&_r=0
Margaret Cheatham Williams, “A Right to Die, A Will to Live,” video for New York Times Magazine, July 21, 2013, http://nyti.ms/1as1gAe
NPR Fresh Air, interview with Terri Gross, July 25, 2013 http://www.npr.org/2013/07/25/205455599/for-bioethicist-with-ailing-spouse-end-
of-life-issues-hit-home
Papers, Lectures, Talks, and Other Presentations Given at Papers (selected list): Illinois Aging Network, Peoria; University of Minnesota, Duluth; American Association of Suicidology, Center for the Shaping of Values, United Theological Seminary, Minneapolis; Concern for Dying, New York; American Society for Aesthetics; American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division; University of Washington; International Association for Suicide Prevention, Vienna, Austria; Veterans Administration Medical Centers, Portland, Salt Lake, Houston, Grand Junction, Co., White River Junction, Vt; Getty Center for Education in the Arts; Idaho State University;
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Bannock Regional Medical Center, Pocatello; Second National Voluntary Euthanasia Conference, Santa Monica; Conference on Assisted Suicide, Stanford; University of Chicago; Miami University, Oxford, Ohio; University of Hawaii; University of Washington; Society for the Scientific Study of Religion; Center for Philosophic Exchange, SUNY/Brockport; University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston; Ross Medical Center, Denver; Symposium on Suicide Research in Alberta, Calgary; Association of Catholic Hospitals, Burlingame; University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa; Auburn University; University of Utrecht; University of Leiden; the Hemlock Society, the American Psychiatric Association, the American Association of Suicidology; Brigham Young University; the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada; Portland State University; University of California, Irvine; Northern Ohio Universities College of Medicine; Texas A&M University; International Federation of Right-to-Die Societies, Maastricht; Society for Health and Human Values; American Society for Aesthetics; Women Judges' Fund for Justice; University of Idaho; University of Amsterdam; University of Amsterdam Medical School; Catholic University of Nijmegen; Arkansas College; American Society of Law and Medicine; University of Manitoba; University of Winnipeg; Vanderbilt University;University of Wisconsin; University of Chicago Medical School; University of Montana; SUNY, Health Science Center at Brooklyn; National Council for International Health; International Association of Bioethics; University of NorthernArizona; National Council for International Health; Seattle and Portland Veterans Administration Medical Centers; Wellesley College; Rochester Institute of Technology; SUNY Brockport; Harvard Center for Population and DevelopmentStudies; University of Washington, Dept. of Psychiatry; Western Michigan University; Youngstown State University; Wichita State University; UC Davis School of Medicine; American Bar Association, Senior Lawyers Division; American Society of Anesthesiology; Washington State Psychological Association; American Association of Medical Colleges, American Association of Bioethics; Presbyterian Hospital, Dallas; International Association of Bioethics, Preston, England; University of Colorado, Boulder; Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing; World Conference of Right-to-Die Societies, Boston, Hamline University School of Law, Utah Valley State College, American Pain Society, Undergraduate Conference on Bioethics, Notre Dame; University of Minnesota Center for Bioethics; International Work Group on Death, Dying and Bereavement, Maastricht, Netherlands; Law & Society Association, Budapest; Population Institute, University of the Philippines/Diliman, Quezon City; International Association of Bioethics, Helsinki, Finland; European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care, Reykjavik, Iceland, and Barcelona, Spain; Feminist Approaches to Bioethics and Australasian Bioethics Association, Sydney, Australia; Louisiana State University; Arizona State University, Facultad Latinoamerica de Sciencias Sociales, Buenos Aires; Irish Association of Suicidology, Armagh, Ireland; University of Tennesee, Knoxville; Dartmouth College; University of Groningen, The Netherlands; University of North Florida; University of Alaska, Anchorage; Emory University; University College, London; Uehiro Center, Oxford; University of Knoxville; Yale University Bioethics Consortium; Willamette Law School; Lisbon School of Medicine, Portugal; Colorado State University, Ft. Collins; New York University Center for Ethics; Bryn Mawr College; Harvard Medical School Division of Medical Ethics; International Association of Bioethics, Rotterdam, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles; European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care, Basel; University of Ghent, Belgium; Center for Practical Bioethics, Kansas City; University of Zurich, Switzerland; International Association of Bioethics, Mexico City; University of Florida, Coral Gables; Association of Spinal Cord Injury Professionals, St. Louis; Veritas; Center for Ethics, Johns Hopkins Medical School; Beloit College; State University of New Mexico, Las Cruces.
Named Lectures:Seamon Lecture, University of Idaho, 1992.Spinoza Lecture, University of Amsterdam Medical School, 1993.Reynolds Lecture, University of Utah, 1994.
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Davis Lecture, University of Illinois at Chicago Medical School, 1994.Trachtenberg Lecture, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1998.Seymour Riklin Lecture, Wayne State University, 1999.Distinguished Lecture in Medicine, College of Wooster, 2001.Pierson Lecture, Medical College of Wisconsin, 2006.Willson Lecture, University of Georgia, 2008.Scott Crom Visiting Philosopher, Beloit College, 2015.
Doctoral Dissertation: "Plato on Truth and Truthlessness in Poetry."
Professional Organizations and Memberships:American Philosophical AssociationAmerican Society for AestheticsAmerican Association of SuicidologyAMINTAPHILEuropean Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Health CareAmerican Society for Bioethics and Humanities International Academy for Suicide ResearchInternational Association for Bioethics International Work Group on Death, Dying, and BereavementAssociation of Reproductive Health Professionals
Offices Held:American Philosophical Association
Pacific Division Program Committee, 1985-88; Pacific DivisionProgram Chair, l987
Committee on Philosophy and Medicine, l987-90; 1995-98Pacific Division Executive Committee, 1994-97Committee on International Cooperation, 2000-2003
American Society for AestheticsTrustee, 1985-88President, Pacific Division, l985-86
American Association of SuicidologyBoard of Directors, l986-89Chair, Ethics Committee, l992-95Nominating Committee 2000-01
International Association for Suicide ResearchEthics Committee, 2002-
American Association of Bioethics (now American Society for Bioethics and Humanities)Board Member, l993-96Program Committees for various meetings
American Council of Learned SocietiesDelegate, from the American Society for Aesthetics, l990-93Delegates' Executive Committee, l991-93
Death With Dignity National Center,Advisory Board -95; Board 1995-2003; Advisory Board 03-
International Association for BioethicsBoard Member, 1997-2005
Planned Parenthood Federation of AmericaNational Medical Board, 2002-8
European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care (ESPMH)Board, 2008-2013
The Hastings CenterFellow
The Ethox Center (Department of Public Health, Medical Sciences, Oxford Univ.)
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Fellow, 2010-
Languages: Rusty Greek, rusty Latin, rusty French; fairly fluent German; some reading knowledge of
Dutch; some Spanish.
Consulting or Advisory Editor: Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide PreventionJournal of Aesthetic Education (1987-1989)Journal of Pain & Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy, formerly
Journal of Pharmaceutical Care in Pain & Symptom Control (1995-)Professional Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Journal (l993- )APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy (1993- )Social Science and Medicine (-96)Theoretical Medicine and BioethicsEthical Theory and Moral Practice (Netherlands, 1997-) Phi Beta Kappa, Emerson Prize Committee (1998)Bioethics (Australia) (1998-Health Care Analysis (1999- )The Philosopher’s Index, Editorial Board (2000-)Journal of Public Health Ethics, Editorial Board (2007-)
Book Series: Co-editor, with Leslie Francis, of Ethics in a Changing World, book series in health, technology, and the environment, University of Utah Press (-93)
Seminar:Co-director, NEH Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers on
Ethics at the End of Life, June 30-Aug. 1, 2003.
Courses Taught: Bioethics, Professional Ethics, Aesthetics, Philosophy in Literature, Intellectual Tradition of the West (Ancient, Medieval, Modern, and Contemporary), Business Ethics, Problems in Human Values, Informal Logic, Philosophy of Religion, Special Topics in Bioethics, Ethics in Organized Religion, Seminars in Applied Ethics, Ethical Issues in Reproduction, Ethical Issues in Death and Dying, Ethical Issues in Global Population Growth, Justice in Health Care and Genetics, Environmental Ethics; Engineering Ethics, Ethics and Infectious Disease; Drug Theory, Policy, and Practice; Honors Think Tank on Genetics; Honors Think Tank on the Uneasy Intersection of Medicine and Law; Advanced Applied Ethics; Advanced Bioethics: Case Puzzles and Thought Experiments, Philosophy of Psychiatry; Death and Dying.
Department, University, and Other Committees: Curriculum Committee 1978-79, 80-82; Undergraduate Committee, 1979-81; University Relations Committee (chair), 1978-82; Director, Intellectual Traditions of the West staff, 1979-81; Honors Program Advisory Committee, 1980-81; Campus Art Advisory Committee, 1981-82; Enrichment Committee (chair), 1982; Committee for Review of Research on Human Subjects, Behavioral Sciences, 1981-82; Medical Sciences 1984-7; Academic Policy Advisory Committee 1985- 87; 89-92, chair 90-9l); Tanner Lecture Committee, 1985-; Academic Senate, 1986-89; Personnel and Elections Committee, 1986-87; Executive Committee, Academic Senate, 1987-89; Ethics Committee, Veterans Administration Medical Center; Utah Medical Association Blue Ribbon Committee on Medical Ethics, 1985-; Chair, Tanner Lecture Committee, 88-01 ; Board, ACLU of Utah, 1989 - ; Rosenblatt Prize Committee, 1989-90; Committee for Review of Research on Human Subjects, Medical Sciences, l990-93; College of Humanities Retention, Promotion and Tenure Committee, l99l-92; University Press Committee, l99l-;
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Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program Advisory Board, l99l-; LDS Hospital Ethics Committee; Applied Ethics Program, Chair, 1991-94, 95-; Task Force on International Studies, 1994-; Scheduling Committee, 1995-; Committee for Review of Research on Human Subjects, Behavioral Sciences, 1995-; Behavioral Sciences and Health Area Committee, 1997-; Genetics Science inSociety Program, Human Genome Research Center; Budget and Personnel Committee, Dept. of Philosophy, 1997-98; Chair, Development Committee, 98-; Honors Program Review Committee; Director of Graduate Study, and Dept.Executive Committee, Dept. of Philosophy, 02-07; Conflicts of Interest Committee, 02-; Faculty Hearing Committee, 03-07.
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