Dan W. Brock (December 1937 – September 26, 2020) was an

American philosopher American philosophy is the activity, corpus, and tradition of philosophers affiliated with the United States. The ''Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy'' notes that while it lacks a "core of defining features, American Philosophy can neverthe ...

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

, and

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at Harvard University and Brown University. He was the Frances Glessner Lee Professor Emeritus of

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in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at

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, the former Director of the Division of Medical Ethics (now the Center for Bioethics) at the Harvard Medical School, and former Director of the

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Program in Ethics and Health (PEH).

Education and career

Brock earned his B.A. in economics from

Cornell University Cornell University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educator Andrew Dickson W ...

and his Ph.D. in philosophy from

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. He taught

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for many years at

Brown University Brown University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. It is the List of colonial colleges, seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the US, founded in 1764 as the ' ...

, where he held the Tillinghast Professorship. He also served as a member of the Department of Clinical Bioethics at the

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. He was president of the American Association of Bioethics (AAB) in 1995–96, and was a founding board member of the

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.ASBH History
/ref> He was a Fellow of the

Hastings Center The Hastings Center for Bioethics is an independent, nonpartisan bioethics research institute in Garrison, New York. Its mission is to address ethical issues in health care, science, and technology. Through its projects and publications and its pu ...

, a bioethics research institution, served as a board member and received the Henry Knowles Beecher Award for lifetime achievement in bioethics from them. 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. 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 ''

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'', September 13, 2016. The

, a bioethics research institution of which he was a founding board member conferred upon Dan Brock their Lifetime Achievement Award on October 19, 2018, in

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CA, during their 20th Annual Meeting (October 18–21, 2018), when their theme was "The Future is Now: Bioethics and Humanities Re-Imagine an Uncertain World".2018 Annual Conference, ASBH 2018 Annual Conference
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Philosophical work

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

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and presented papers and talks all over the world.

References

External links

Dan Brock's publications

Dan Brock's publications via Harvard Catalyst profile

American Society for Bioethics and Humanities
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Education and career

Philosophical work

See also

References

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