Dan W. Brock
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Dan W. Brock | |
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| Born | December 1937 |
| Died | September 26, 2020 (aged 82) Boston, Massachusetts |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Cornell University |
| Alma mater | Columbia University |
| Awards | Lifetime Achievement Award of American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, October 18, 2018 |
| Era | 20th-21st century |
| Region | New England |
| Institutions | Harvard Medical School |
Main interests | Philosophy, bioethics |
Notable ideas | killing vs. letting die |
Dan W. Brock (December 1937 – September 26, 2020) was an American philosopher, bioethicist, and professor emeritus at Harvard University and Brown University. He was the Frances Glessner Lee Professor Emeritus of 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[edit]
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)[4][5] in 1995–96, and was a founding board member of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities.[6] He was a Fellow of the 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.[8] Most recently he served on a panel that updated 20-year-old guidelines and recommendations for evaluating cost-effectiveness in health and medicine, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, September 13, 2016.[9]
The American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, a bioethics research institution of which he was a founding board member[6] conferred upon Dan Brock their Lifetime Achievement Award[10] on October 19, 2018, in 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[edit]
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[edit]
- American Society for Bioethics and Humanities
- American philosophy
- Health equity
- List of American philosophers
References[edit]
- ^ "The Department of Bioethics - Our People". Archived from the original on February 15, 2013. Retrieved October 10, 2009.
- ^ The Department of Bioethics – About Us
- ^ "The Department of Clinical Bioethics - the Blossoming of Bioethics at NIH". Archived from the original on September 24, 2017. Retrieved October 10, 2009.
- ^ "American Society of Bioethics and Humanities History | ASBH".
- ^ American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Records, (1998-2001)
- ^ a b ASBH History
- ^ "Dan Brock Remembered".
- ^ "Dan Brock | Center for Bioethics". bioethics.hms.harvard.edu. Retrieved November 18, 2016.
- ^ "New Guidelines Enhance Evidence-Based Health Care". Retrieved November 18, 2016.
- ^ ASBH website, Lifetime Achievement Award
- ^ ASBH website, Past and Future Annual Conferences
- ^ ASBH website, Program Theme
- ^ Literature, Medicine, Medical Humanities: An MLA Commons site. CFP: Bioethics and Humanities Re-Imagine an Uncertain World (ASBH). January 23, 2018. Thomas Lawrence Long
- ^ 2018 Annual Conference, ASBH 2018 Annual Conference
External links[edit]
- Dan Brock's publications
- Dan Brock's publications via Harvard Catalyst profile
- American Society for Bioethics and Humanities
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- American ethicists
- Harvard Medical School faculty
- Cornell University alumni
- Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
- Hastings Center Fellows
- Brown University faculty
- 20th-century American philosophers
- 21st-century American philosophers
- Harvard University faculty
- Members of the National Academy of Medicine