thumb Norman Daniels (born 1942) is an American

political philosopher Political philosophy or political theory is the philosophical study of government, addressing questions about the nature, scope, and legitimacy of public agents and institutions and the relationships between them. Its topics include politics, l ...

and

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political theorist A political theorist is someone who engages in constructing or evaluating political theory, including political philosophy. Theorists may be Academia, academics or independent scholars. Here the most notable political theorists are categorized b ...

ethicist An ethicist is one whose judgment on ethics and ethical codes has come to be trusted by a specific community, and (importantly) is expressed in some way that makes it possible for others to mimic or approximate that judgment. Following the advice of ...

, and

bioethicist 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, med ...

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...

and the

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. Before his career at Harvard, Daniels had built his career as a medical ethicist at

Tufts University Tufts University is a private research university on the border of Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1852 as Tufts College by Christian universalists who sought to provide a nonsectarian institution of higher learning. ...

in Medford, Massachusetts, and at

Tufts University School of Medicine The Tufts University School of Medicine is the medical school of Tufts University, a private research university in Massachusetts. It was established in 1893 and is located on the university's health sciences campus in downtown Boston. The '' ...

, also in

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Teaching positions

Until his retirement at the end of June 2017, Daniels is Mary B. Saltonstall Professor of Population Ethics and Professor of Ethics and Population Health in the Department of Global Health and Population at the

in Boston. Previously, and for 33 years, he had taught political philosophy at

in Medford, Massachusetts.Bios_63-64 htm
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, he had been Goldthwaite Professor and chair of the philosophy department, and at

, he was professor of medical ethics (1969–2002).

Education

* 1970 -

, Ph.D. (Philosophy), awarded the Plympton Dissertation Prize, 1971 * 1966 -

Balliol College Balliol College () is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. One of Oxford's oldest colleges, it was founded around 1263 by John I de Balliol, a landowner from Barnard Castle in County Durham, who provided the ...

Oxford Oxford () is a city in England. It is the county town and only city of Oxfordshire. In 2020, its population was estimated at 151,584. It is north-west of London, south-east of Birmingham and north-east of Bristol. The city is home to the ...

, B.A. (equivalent to M.A. in USA) (Philosophy and Psychology, First Honors) * 1964 -

Wesleyan University Wesleyan University ( ) is a private liberal arts university in Middletown, Connecticut. Founded in 1831 as a men's college under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church and with the support of prominent residents of Middletown, the col ...

, B.A. (English, Summa cum Laude)

Personal life

Daniels is married to neuro-psychologist Anne Lacy Daniels (Ed.D.). They have one son, Noah M. Daniels, formerly a postdoctoral research associate at

MIT The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the m ...

, is now Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Statistics of The

University of Rhode Island The University of Rhode Island (URI) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Kingston, Rhode Island, United States. It is the flagship public research as well as the land-grant university of the state of Rhode Isla ...

. With

Jared Israel Jared Israel (born 1944) is an American writer and activist who edits the website ''The Emperor’s New Clothes'', and has been published in ''Arutz Sheva''. He graduated from Harvard University where he was involved in student protests, and also ...

, Daniels co-chaired the Harvard chapter of the

Students for a Democratic Society Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was a national student activist organization in the United States during the 1960s, and was one of the principal representations of the New Left. Disdaining permanent leaders, hierarchical relationships ...

in 1969. In a public letter to his fraternity brothers at Wesleyan, Daniels wrote: "At Harvard, I ended up co-chair of SDS and gave the speech on the steps of University Hall April 9, 1969, that began the take-over of that administration building and thus led to the Harvard Strike. I would have been fired as a teaching fellow, so I followed my advisors advice and quit that position to take a part-time job at Tufts, teaching philosophy of science and political philosophy. I stayed 33 years."

Professional affiliations

* Formerly Goldthwaite Professor and chair of the philosophy department at

and professor of medical ethics at

Tufts Medical School The Tufts University School of Medicine is the medical school of Tufts University, a private research university in Massachusetts. It was established in 1893 and is located on the university's health sciences campus in downtown Boston. The '' ...

, 1969–2002 * Fellow,

Hastings Center The Hastings Center is an independent, nonpartisan bioethics research institute and think tank based in Garrison, New York. It was instrumental in establishing the field of bioethics and is among the most prestigious bioethics and health policy i ...

* Member, Institute of Medicine * Founding member of the National Academy of Social Insurance * Member, International Society for Equity in Health * Member, Medicare Coverage Advisory Commission (Bill Clinton administration) * Member, Ethics Working Group of the Clinton White House Health Care Task Force (Spring 1993) * Member, Advisory Board of the CIHR-Institute of Population and Public Health (Fall 2009) * Member, Ethics Advisory Board of the

Centers for Disease Control The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the national public health agency of the United States. It is a United States federal agency, under the Department of Health and Human Services, and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgi ...

(Fall 2009 - Fall 2012) * Member, Public Health Service Expert Panel on Cost Effectiveness and Clinical Preventive Medicine * Member, National Academy of Social Insurance study panel on the social role of Medicare * Member, Century Fund task force on Medicare reform Consulting * He has traveled widely and internationally, consulting with organizations, commissions, and governments in the U.S. and abroad on issues of justice and health policy * Norman Daniels and Dan W. Brock consulted with

Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton ( Rodham; born October 26, 1947) is an American politician, diplomat, and former lawyer who served as the 67th United States Secretary of State for President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013, as a United States sen ...

Bill Clinton William Jefferson Clinton ( né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He previously served as governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and agai ...

's healthcare taskforce in 1993. * Consultant,

United Nations The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a centre for harmoniz ...

* Consultant,

World Health Organization The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health. The WHO Constitution states its main objective as "the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of ...

* President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine

Awards

* Member, Institute of Medicine * Fellow,

The Hastings Center The Hastings Center is an independent, nonpartisan bioethics research institute and think tank based in Garrison, New York. It was instrumental in establishing the field of bioethics and is among the most prestigious bioethics and health policy ...

* Founding Member, National Academy of Social Insurance * Founding Member, International Society for Equity in Health * Founding Member, National Cancer Policy Board, established by the Institute of Medicine and the Commission on the Life Sciences (served He served four years) * Founding Member, Advisory Board of the Open Society Foundation project on Medicine as a Profession, and on the International Bioethics Advisory Board of PAHO. He served recently on an IOM Committee on the use of Cost Effectiveness Analysis in regulatory contexts.

Fellowships and grants

* Greenwall Foundation *

National Endowment for the Humanities The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is an independent federal agency of the U.S. government, established by thNational Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965(), dedicated to supporting research, education, preserv ...

National Institutes of Health The National Institutes of Health, commonly referred to as NIH (with each letter pronounced individually), is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research. It was founded in the late ...

National Library of Medicine The United States National Library of Medicine (NLM), operated by the United States federal government, is the world's largest medical library. Located in Bethesda, Maryland, the NLM is an institute within the National Institutes of Health. Its ...

National Science Foundation The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National ...

* Retirement Research Foundation *

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is an American philanthropic organization. It is the largest one focused solely on health. Based in Princeton, New Jersey, the foundation focuses on access to health care, public health, health equity, ...

: Investigator Award in Health Policy Research, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 1997 (for the period 1998-2001) : "Limit-Setting in Managed Care and Other Health Delivery Systems: Legitimacy, Fair Process, and the Goals of Health Care Reform" * Rockefeller Foundation grant, international adaptation of the benchmarks

Books

Thomas Reid's`Inquiry': the Geometry of Visibles and the Case for Realism
(1974; Stanford, 1989)
Reading Rawls: Critical Studies on Rawls' 'A Theory of Justice'
(1975; Stanford, 1989)
Just Health Care
(Cambridge, 1985) * Am I My Parents' Keeper? An Essay on Justice Between the Young and the Old (Oxford, 1988)
Seeking Fair Treatment: From the AIDS Epidemic to National Health Care Reform
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1995) * Justice and Justification: Reflective Equilibrium in Theory and Practice (Cambridge University Press, 1996) * (with Donald Light and Ronald Caplan) Benchmarks of Fairness for Health Care Reform (Oxford, 1996) * (with

Allen Buchanan Allen Edward Buchanan is a moral, political and legal philosopher. As of 2022, he held multiple academic positions: Laureate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona, Distinguished Research Fellow at Oxford University, Visiting Profes ...

, Dan Brock, and

Dan Wikler Daniel I. 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 Glob ...

From Chance to Choice: Genetics and JusticeCambridge University Press
. (Cambridge, 2000) * (with Bruce Kennedy and Ichiro Kawachi) Is Inequality Bad for Our Health? (Beacon Press, 2000) * (with

Harvard Medical School Harvard Medical School (HMS) is the graduate medical school of Harvard University and is located in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1782, HMS is one of the oldest medical schools in the United States and is consi ...

clinical ethicist and psychiatris
James E. Sabin, MDSetting Limits Fairly: Can We Learn to Share Medical Resources?
(Oxford, 2002;2nd ed., 2008; Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2009) . DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195149364.001.0001
Just Health: Meeting Health Needs Fairly
(Cambridge, 2008).

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References

External links

HSPH Faculty Site for Prof. Norm Daniels

Publications of Prof. Norm Daniels

'Norman Daniels Symposium' lectures/papers presented published in the Journal of Medical Ethics (January 2009, Volume 35, Number 1), published by British Medical Journal and the Institute of Medical Ethics

HSPH-sponsored personal Faculty website for Prof. Norman O. Daniels, PhD
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