K. Danner Clouser (26 April 1930 – 14 August 2000) was an American

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 ...

. He gained his bachelor's degree from the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg in 1955, then completed a PhD at

Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...

in 1961. After having taught at Dartmouth College and Carleton College, he moved to the

Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State or PSU) is a Public university, public Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related Land-grant university, land-grant research university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsyl ...

, where he pursued his career and became University Professor of Humanities (emeritus). In 1968, he established one of the first humanities courses at the

College of Medicine. At

Dartmouth College Dartmouth College ( ) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, Dartmouth is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the America ...

, he met several moral philosophers with whom he continued to collaborate:

Bernard Gert Bernard Gert (; October 16, 1934 – December 24, 2011) was a ethics, 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 th ...

, Charles M. Culver, and Ronald M. Green As an associate editor of the ''Encyclopedia of Bioethics'', he contributed to the development of American bioethics, where he advocated a "common morality" as opposed to classical

principlism Principlism is an applied ethics approach to the examination of moral dilemmas centering the application of certain ethical principles. This approach to ethical decision-making has been prevalently adopted in various professional fields, large ...

. One of his peers, Albert Jonsen, qualified him as being "the wittiest ethicist."In Memoriam, ''Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal'', Volume 10, Number 4, December 2000, pp. vii-viii , 10.1353/ken.2000.0029 K. Danner Clouser died from

pancreatic cancer Pancreatic cancer arises when cell (biology), cells in the pancreas, a glandular organ behind the stomach, begin to multiply out of control and form a Neoplasm, mass. These cancerous cells have the malignant, ability to invade other parts of ...

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"Humanities in a Technological Education"
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