Ruth Macklin is an American philosopher and retired professor of
bioethics
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.
Education
Ruth Macklin studied
philosophy
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at
Cornell University
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then received Ph.D. in philosophy from
Case Western Reserve University.
Career
She is distinguished university professor emerita at
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
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in
New York City
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. She has more than 280 scholarly publications and books on
HIV/AIDS
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, the ethics of
human reproduction
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, the ethics of human subjects in research,
health policy,
public health ethics, and more. She has been adviser to the
World Health Organization
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, chairperson of a committee at
UNAIDS
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and at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a member of several ethical review committees, an elected member of the
National Academy of Medicine
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, co-chair of the
National Advisory Board on Ethics in Reproduction, is a member of the
American Society for Bioethics and Humanities
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, served as president of the
International Association of Bioethics
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Music Albums
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, is a member of the
Scientific Advisory Board of PEPFAR, and was a vice president and member of executive committee,
Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS), Geneva. Macklin is a fellow of 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 i ...
, an independent bioethics research institution.
The Hastings Center
Hastings Center Fellows. Accessed November 6, 2010
Selected bibliography
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See also
* American philosophy
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* List of American philosophers
This is a list of American philosophers; of philosophers who are either from, or spent many productive years of their lives in the United States.
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21st-century American philosophers
Bioethicists
Case Western Reserve University alumni
Cornell University alumni
Hastings Center Fellows
Living people
Albert Einstein College of Medicine faculty
1938 births
Members of the National Academy of Medicine