The American Society for Bioethics and Humanities is an American learned society dedicated to promoting research and the exchange of ideas in

bioethics Bioethics is both a field of study and professional practice, interested in ethical issues related to health (primarily focused on the human, but also increasingly includes animal ethics), including those emerging from advances in biology, m ...

and related disciplines in the humanities. It was founded in January 1998 from the merger between the Society for Health and Human Values (SHHV), the Society for Bioethics Consultation (SBC), and the American Association of Bioethics (AAB), which were founded in 1969, 1986, and 1994, respectively.

Presidents

* Kayhan Parsi, JD PHD HEC-C (President-Elect, to serve from 2021 to 2023) * Ana Smith Iltis * Alex Kon (2017–2019) * Amy Haddad (2015–17) * Felicia Cohn (2013–15) * Joseph Fins (2011–13) * Mark Kuczewski (2009–11) *

Hilde Lindemann Hilde Lindemann (also ''Hilde Lindemann Nelson'') is an American philosophy professor and bioethicist and emerita professor at Michigan State University. Lindemann earned her B.A. in German language and literature in 1969 at the University of Ge ...

(2008–09) * Tod S. Chambers (2007–08) * Paul Root Wolpe (2006–07) * Matthew K. Wynia (2005–06) * Arthur R. Derse (2004–05) * Jonathan D. Moreno (2003–04) * John D. Lantos (2002–03) * Kathryn Montgomery (2001–02) *

Laurie Zoloth Laurie Zoloth (born 1950) is an American ethics, ethicist, currently Margaret E. Burton Professor at the University of Chicago Divinity School. She was dean of the Divinity School from 2017 to 2018, whereupon she stepped into an advisory administr ...

(2000–01) * Thomas H. Murray (1999-2000) * Mary Faith Marshall (1998–99) * Loretta M. Kopelman (1998)

Lifetime Achievement Award

* 2019 - Christine Grady, PhD RN * 2018 - Dan W. Brock, PhD * 2017 - Myra Christopher and Steven H. Miles, MD * 2016 -

Arthur Caplan Arthur L. Caplan (born 1950) is the Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor of Bioethics at New York University Grossman School of Medicine and the founding director of the Division of Medical Ethics. Caplan has made many contribut ...

, PhD * 2015 - Baruch Brody, PhD * 2014 - Nancy Dubler, LLB * 2013 - H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr., MD PhD * 2012 - Kathryn Montgomery, PhD * 2011 -

Ruth Faden Ruth R. Faden is an American scientist, academic, and founder of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. She was the Berman Institute's Director from 1995 until 2016, and the inaugural Andreas C. Dracopoulos Director from 2014 to 2016. Fa ...

, PhD MPH * 2010 -

Mark Siegler Mark Siegler (born June 20, 1941) is an American physician who specializes in internal medicine. He is the Lindy Bergman Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine and Surgery at the University of Chicago. , He is the Founding Director of Chi ...

, MD * 2009 - Howard Brody, MD PhD * 2008 - Robert M. Veatch, PhD * 2007 - Renée C. Fox, PhD * 2006 - Ronald E. Cranford, MD and

Bernard Gert Bernard Gert (; October 16, 1934 – December 24, 2011) was a moral philosopher known primarily for his work in normative ethics, as well as in medical ethics, especially pertaining to psychology. His work has been called "among the clear ...

, PhD * 2005 - Eric Cassell, MD MACP * 2004 - Tom L. Beauchamp, PhD,

James F. Childress James Franklin Childress (; born October 4, 1940) is a philosopher and theologian whose scholarship addresses ethics, particularly biomedical ethics. Currently he is the John Allen Hollingsworth Professor of Ethics at the Department of Religious ...

, PhD, and Joanne Trautmann Banks, PhD * 2003 - Jay Katz, MD * 2002 - Ruth Macklin, PhD * 2001 -

Daniel Callahan Daniel John Callahan (July 19, 1930 – July 16, 2019) was an American philosopher who played a leading role in developing the field of biomedical ethics as co-founder of The Hastings Center, the world's first bioethics research institute. He ser ...

, PhD * 2000 - John C. Fletcher, PhD * 1999 -

Albert R. Jonsen Albert R. Jonsen (April 1931 – October 21, 2020) was one of the founders of the field of Bioethics. He was Emeritus Professor of Ethics in Medicine at the University of Washington, School of Medicine, where he was Chairman of the Department of ...

, PhD * 1998 - Edmund D. Pellegrino, MD

References

External links

* Learned societies of the United States Bioethics research organizations Organizations established in 1998 Organizations based in Chicago {{Bioethics-stub