CURRICULUM VITAE

Margaret Pabst Battin, M.F.A., Ph.D.

Distinguished Professor, Department of Philosophy

Adjunct Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Medical Ethics
University of Utah

Department of Philosophy Date of resume: August 2001

260 Central Campus Drive, Room 341
University of Utah office phone: (801) 581-6608
Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-9156 office fax: (801) 585-5195
home phone: (801) 359-1970
e-mail: mp.battin@m.cc.utah.edu home fax: (801) 359-7029

Education:
Bryn Mawr College, B.A., magna cum laude with Honors in Philosophy, 1963, including
University of Munich, 1961-2
University of California/Irvine, M.F.A. (Fiction Writing), 1973
University of California/Irvine, Ph.D. (Philosophy), 1976

Employment:
current positions:
Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Utah, July 1988-
Adjunct Professor, Division of Medical Ethics, Department of Internal
Medicine, LDS Hospital and University of Utah School of Medicine, 1990-
past positions:
Instructor, Pitzer College, The Claremont Colleges, Fall 1974
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Utah, 1975-77
Assistant Professor, University of Utah, 1977-81; Philosopher-in-Residence, Veterans
Administration Medical Center, Salt Lake, Winter 1981
Associate Professor, University of Utah, July 1981-88

Honors, Fellowships, and Awards:

Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 1963-64 (Honorary)
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for Independent Study and Research,
1977-78
Utah Arts Council, First Prize for Book- length Collection of Short Stories, 1981
David P. Gardner Curriculum Development Award, University of Utah, Winter 1984
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend 1986
University of Utah Faculty Fellow Awards, Spring 1980, Autumn 1988, Autumn1997, Spring
2002
Ramona W. Cannon Award for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities, University of Utah, co-
recipient 1988
Spinoza Chair, University of Amsterdam, Academic Medical Center, The Netherlands, Spring
l993
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Humanities Center Fellowship, University of Utah, l994-95
Annette P. Cumming Community Service Award, Planned Parenthood of Utah, 1994.
Distinguished Research Award, University of Utah, 1997.
Named Distinguished Professor, University of Utah, 2000.
Rosenblatt Prize, University of Utah, co-recipient, 2000.

Publications

Books:
Ethical Issues in Suicide, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, first version 1982;
revised and expanded version 1995.
Suicide: The Philosophical Issues, edited by Margaret P. Battin and David J. Mayo.
New York: St. Martin's, 1980; London: Peter Owen, Ltd., 1981.
John Donne, Biathanatos, a modern-spelling critical edition, edited by Michael Rudick
and Margaret P. Battin. New York: Garland Publishing Company, 1982.
Should Medical Care be Rationed by Age?, edited by Timothy Smeeding with Margaret
P. Battin, Leslie P. Francis, and Bruce M. Landesman, Totowa, N.J.: Rowman &
Littlefield, 1987.
Puzzles About Art: An Aesthetics Casebook, by Margaret P. Battin, Anita Silvers,
Ronald Moore, and John Fisher. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989.
Ethical Issues in the Professions, by Peter Y. Windt, Peter C. Appleby, Margaret P.
Battin, Leslie P. Francis, and Bruce M. Landesman. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.:
Prentice-Hall, 1989.
Ethics in the Sanctuary: Examining the Practices of Organized Religion. New Haven
and London: Yale University Press, 1990.
Changing to National Health Care: The Ethical Issues, edited by Robert P. Huefner
and Margaret P. Battin, Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press, 1992.
The Least Worst Death: Essays in Bioethics on the End of Life, Oxford University
Press, 1994.
The Death Debate: Ethical Issues in Suicide. Trade version of Ethical Issues in
Suicide, 1982, revised 1995. Upper Saddle Rive r, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1996.
Physician-Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate, edited by Margaret P. Battin,
Rosamond Rhodes and Anita Silvers. New York: Routledge, 1998.
Praying for a Cure: When Medical and Religious Practices Conflict, by Peggy
DesAutels, Margaret P. Battin, and Larry May. Lanham, MD: Rowman &
Littlefield, 1999.

Books and Journal Issues Guest-edited:

Suicide and Ethical Theory, edited by Margaret P. Battin and Ronald Maris, special
issue of Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, Vol. 13, No. 4 (Winter 1983);
also published as an independent volume by Human Sciences Press, 1983.
Legal Euthanasia: Ethical Issues in an Era of Legalized Aid in Dying, edited by
Margaret P. Battin and Thomas J. Bole, III, special issue of The Journal of
Medicine and Philosophy, Vol. 18, No. 3 (June l993).
Drug Use in Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia, edited by Margaret P. Battin and Arthur
J. Lipman, two special double issues of the Journal of Pharmaceutical Care in
Pain & Symptom Control, nos. 3 and 4, 1995, and nos. 1 and 2, 1996 ; also
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published as an independent volume, Binghamton NY: Pharmaceutical Products
Press, Haworth Press, 1996.

Books in Progress:
Medicine and Social Justice, ed. Rosamond Rhodes, Margaret P. Battin, and Anita
Silvers. Under contract with Oxford University Press; completion date 2001.
The Ethics of Suicide: A Historical Sourcebook. Comprehensive collection of historical
sources concerning issues in suicide. Under contract with Oxford University
Press; completion date 2001.
Sex & Consequences: Changing the Default Mechanism in Human Reproduction. On
the conflict between population growth control and reproductive freedom;
completion date 2002.
The Best Available Death (tentative title), collection of essays in bioethics. Under
contract with Oxford University Press; completion date 2002.

Journal Articles or Articles in Collections :

"Aristotle's Definition of Tragedy in the Poetics," The Journal of Aesthetics and Art
Criticism, Part I: Vol. XXXIII, No. 2, Winter 1974; Part II: Vol. XXXIII No. 3,
Spring 1975.
"Plato on True and False Poetry," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Vol.
XXXVI, No. 2, Winter 1977.
"Exact Replication in the Visual Arts," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Vol.
XXXVIII, No. 2, Winter 1979.
"Manipulated Suicide," Bioethics Quarterly, Vol. 2, No. 2, Summer 1980, and in Battin
& Mayo volume, below.
"The Least Worst Death: Selective Refusal of Treatment," The Hastings Center Report,
Vol. 13, No. 2, April 1983, pp. 13-16.
"Telling Confessions: Confidentiality and the Practice of Religion," Sunstone, Vol. 8,
No. 6, Nov.-Dec. 1983, pp. 23-33.
"Applied Professional Ethics and Institutional Religion: The Methodological Issues,"
The Monist, Vol. 67, No. 4, 1984.
"Non-Patient Decision-Making in Medicine: The Eclipse of Altruism," The Journal of
Medicine and Philosophy, Vol. 10, 1985, pp. 19-44.
"The Dreariness of Aesthetics (Continued), With a Remedy," Journal of Aesthetic
Education, Vol. 20, Number 4, Winter 1986; reprinted as "Case Problems in
Aesthetics," in Aesthetics and Arts Education, ed. Ralph A. Smith and Alan
Simpson, Urbana and Chicago: Univ. of Illinois Press, l99l.
"Euthanasia," in Health Care Ethics: An Introduction, Donald VanDeVeer and Tom
Regan, eds., Temple University Press, 1987.
"Choosing the Time to Die: The Ethics and Economics of Suicide in Old Age," in
Ethical Dimensions of Geriatric Care: Value Conflicts for the 21st Century, I.
Lawson, S. Spicker, and S. Ingram, eds. Philosophy and Medicine Symposium
Series No. 18, Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1987.
"Age-Rationing and the Just Distribution of Health Care: Is There a Duty to Die?"
Ethics, Vol. 97, No. 2, January 1987. Reprinted in Bioethics News (Australia),
Vol. 7, No. 1, Oct. 1987; and in The Moral Life, Steven Luper-Foy and Curtis
Brown, eds., Holt, Rinehard and Winston, l992.
"Lessons from Ethics: Case-driven Aesthetics and Approaches to Theory," in T.
Anderberg, T. Nilstun, and I. Persson, eds., Aesthetic Distinction: Essays
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Presented to Goran Hermeren on his 50th Birthday, Lund, Sweden; Lund
University Press, 1988.
"High- Risk Religion," Philosophic Exchange, (double issue #19-20, 1988- 89, pp. 25-
70, (chapter 3 of Ethics in the Sanctuary, above).
"Organized Religion: New Target for Professional Ethics?" Journal of Social
Philosophy, Vol. 20, Nos. 1 and 2, June 1989.
"Euthanasia: The Way We Do It, The Way They Do It," Journal of Pain and Symptom
Management, Vol. 6, No. 5, July l99l; revised version in Health Care Ethics,
Monagle and Thomasma, eds., Gaithersburg: Aspen Publishers, l994; also
reprinted in Biomedical Ethics, ed. Thomas A. Mappes and David DeGrazia,
McGraw-Hill, 1995.
"Rational Suicide? How Can We Respond to a Request for Help?" Crisis (Journal of
the International Association for Suicide Prevention) l2:2 (l99l).
"Euthanasia in Alzheimer's Disease?" in Dementia and Aging: Ethics, Values, and
Policy Choices, Robert Binstock, Stephen Post, and Peter J. Whitehouse, eds.,
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.
"Dying in 559 Beds: Efficiency, "Best Buys," and the Ethics of Standardization in
National Health Care," Journal of Medicine and Philosophy,17(l); 59-77 (l992);
also in Huefner and Battin, below.
"Voluntary Euthanasia and the Risks of Abuse: Can We Learn Anyt hing from the
Netherlands?" Law Medicine, and Health Care 20:1-2: 133-143
(Spring/Summer, 1992).
"Assisted Suicide: Can We Learn from Germany?" The Hastings Center Report
22(2):44-51 (March-April 1992).
"Intergenerational Justice, Political Conflict, and the Prudential Lifespan Solution in
Health Care," in Economic Security and Intergenerational Justice: A Look at
North America, ed. Theodore R. Marmor, Timothy M. Smeeding, and Vernon
Greene. Washington D.C.: The Urban Institute Press, 1994.
"Suicidology and the Right to Die," in Suicidology: Essays in Honor of Edwin S.
Shneidman, ed. Antoon Leenaars. Northvale, N.J.: Jason Aronson, l993.
"Is There a Place for Euthanasia in America's Care for the Elderly?" in Choosing Who's
to Live: Ethics and Aging, James W. Walters ed., Urbana and Chicago:
University of Illinois Press, l996, pp. 49-71.
"Cases for Kids: Using Puzzle Cases to Teach Aesthetics to Children," Journal of
Aesthetic Education, Vol 28, no. 3 (Fall 1994), pp. 89-104; reprinted in
Aesthetics for Young People, ed. Ronald Moore, National Art Education
Association, 1995.
"Reading Religions: A Reply to Callahan, Martin, and Quinn," Professional Ethics,
Vol. 3, no. 2, 1994; response in symposium on my book Ethics in the Sanctuary.
"Physicians, Partners, and People with AIDS: Deciding about Suicide," Crisis (Journal
of the International Association for Suicide Prevention), Vol. 15, no. 1, l994.
"Going Early, Going Late: The Rationality of Decisions about Suicide in AIDS,"
Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, December 1994; reprinted in Udo
Shüklenk, ed., AIDS, Society, Ethics and Law, a volume in the series
International Librarty of Medicine, Ethics and Law, Aldershot, UK, and
Burlington, Vt., USA, Ashgate Publishing Ltd., forthcoming 2001.
"A Dozen Caveats Concerning the Discussion of Euthanasia in the Netherlands," in
Jonathan Moreno, ed., Arguing Euthanasia New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.
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"The Least Worst Death: Selective Refusal of Treatment, Physician-Assisted Suicide,
and Euthanasia" (updated version of 1983 paper), Vorträge des Internationalen
Kongresses "Das Gewissen der Medizin," April 1993, Österreichische
Gesellschaft für Gesundheitsökonomie (Vienna), Gesundheits-Oeconomica,
1995. pp. 161-169.
"Color y Cultura: La anticoncepcion automatica y su impacto en la poblacion urbana
negra norteamericana y en la de paises en desarrollo,” Perspectivas Bioéticas en
las Americas, vol. 2, no. 1, 1997, pp. 64-92 (translated).
“Sex and Consequences: World Population Growth versus Reproductive Rights,”
Philosophic Exchange, 1997.
"Physician-Assisted Suicide: Does the Physician Have an Obligation to Help?" in
Regulating How We Die: Ethical, Medical, and Legal Issues Surrounding
Physician-Assisted Suicide , ed. Linda Emanuel, MD, Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press, 1998.
“Population,” in Peter Singer and Helga Kuhse, eds., Companion to Bioethics, 2nd
edition. Oxford: Blackwells, 1999.
“Physician-Assisted Suicide: Safe, Legal, and Rare?” In Battin, Rhodes and Silvers,
eds., Physician-Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate., New York:
Routledge, 1998 (above).
“Genetic Information and Knowing When You Will Die,” in A. Thompson and R.
Chadwick, eds., Genetic Information: Acquisition, Access, and Control (New
York: Plenum, 1999).
“What are the Potential Cost Savings from Legalizing Physician-Assisted Suicide?” by
Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Margaret P. Battin, New England Journal of Medicine
339(3):167-172 (July 16, 1998)
“Global Life Expectancies and the Duty to Die,” in James M. Humber and Robert F.
Almeder, eds., Biomedical Ethics Reviews, special issue “Is There a Duty to
Die?” Totowa, NJ: Humana Press, 1999, pp. 1-22.
“On the Structure of the Euthanasia Debate: Observations Provoked by a Near-Perfect
For-and-Against Book.” Review Symposium on Eut hanasia and Physician-
Assisted Suicide, Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law 25(2):415-430
(April 2000).
“The Euthanasia Debate in the United States: Conflicting Claims About the
Netherlands,” in Hans Krabbendam and Hans-Martien ten Napel,
eds.,Regulating Morality: A Comparison of the Role of the State in Mastering
the Mores in the Netherlands and the United States (Antwerpen-Apeldoorn: E.
M. Meijers Institute, Maklu-Uitgevers, 2000), pp. 151-171.
“Safe, Legal, Rare? Physician-Assisted Suicide and Cultural Change in the Future”
(revised and expanded version of “Physician-Assisted Suicide: Safe, Legal,
Rare?, above) in both: Loretta Kopelman and Kenneth DeVille, eds, Physician-
Assisted Suicide (Kluwer, forthcoming 2001) and in: Diego DeLeo, ed., Suicide
and Euthanasia in Older Adults: A Transcultural Journey, Goettingen Toronto-
Bern: Huber/Hogrefe Publishers, forthcoming 2002.
“How the Dispute over Physician-Assisted Suicide Could Get Worse,” in A. Klijn, F.
Mortier, M. Trappenburg, eds., Regulating Physician-Negotiated Death (special
issue of Recht der Werkelijkheid, Dutch/FlemishJournal of Law & Society),
Elsevier, forthcoming 2002.
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Encyclopedia Entries:
Entry "Suicide," Encyclopedia of Ethics (Garland Publishing Co.), 1992, revised 2001.
Entry "Suicide," Encyclopedia of Bioethics (Macmillan), 1995.
Entry "Suicide," Dictionnaire de philosophie morale (Presses Universitaires de France),
1997.
Sidebar, “Physician-Assisted Suicide,” Encarta Encyclopedia. Entry “Suicide: Ethical
Aspects of, ” in International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences,
Elsevier Science Ltd., forthcoming 2001.
Entry, “Suicide and Assisted Suicide, Ethical Aspects, ” in Macmillan Encyclopedia of
Aging, forthcoming April 2002.

Papers and notes from the Division of Medical Ethics and elsewhere:
Jacobson JA, White BE, Battin MP, Botkin JR, Francis LP, Green DJ,
Kasworm ES, "Patients' Understanding and Use of Advance
Directives," Western Journal of Medicine 160(3):232-236 (1994).
Jacobson JA, Kasworm ES, Battin MP, Botkin JR, Francis LP, Green DJ,
"Decedents' Reported Preferences for Physician-Assisted Death: A
Survey of Informants Listed on Death Certificates in Utah," Journal
of Clinical Ethics 6(2):149-157 (1995).
Jacobson JA, Kasworm ES, Battin MP, Francis LP, Green DJ, Botkin JR,
Johnson S, "Advance Directives in Utah: Information from Death
Certificates and Informants," Archives of Internal Medicine, in
press, 1996.
Battin MP, Botkin JR, Francis LP, Jacobson JA, “Quick Easy Questions
for Analyzing Medical Ethics Cases,” American Philosophical
Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Medicine 97:1, Fall 1997.
Murphy GD, Schenkenberg T., Hunter JS, Battin MP, “Advance
Directives: A Computer Assisted Approach to Assuring Patients’
Rights and Compliance with PSDA and JCAHO Standards,” HEC
Forum 1997.
Jacobson, JA, Francis LP, Battin MP, Green DJ, Grammes C, VanRiper J,
Gully J, “Dialogue to Action: Lessons Learned from Some Family
Members of Deceased Patients at an Interactive Program in Seven
Utah Hospitals,” Journal of Clinical Ethics 8:4 (1998): 359-371.

Student co-authored papers:

Christopher Peterson and Margaret P. Battin, "Gender Roles and Male Contraception,"
Journal of Undergraduate Research, University of Utah, Vol. 6, no. 1, Nov.
1995, pp. 17-24.
Julia Kotlyar and Margaret P. Battin, "Abortion in Russia," Journal of Undergraduate
Research, University of Utah, 1996.

Reviews and Book Notes:

Review of G.N. Giordano Orsini's Organic Unity in Ancient and Later Poetics, The
Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Vol. XXXV, No. 2, Winter 1976.
Review of William H. Gass' On Being Blue, Quarterly West, Spring/Summer, 1977.
Review, with Louis Borgenicht, M.D., of Clinical Ethics: A Practical Approach to
Ethical Decisions in Clinical Medicine, by Jonsen, Siegler, and Winslade, The
Journal of Family Practice, Vol. 18, No. 1, 1984.
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Review of Richard Sherlock, Preserving Life: Public Policy and the Life Not Worth
Living (Loyola Univ. Press, 1987), Utah Humanities News, Feb. 1988.
Review of Robert Campbell and Diane Collinson, Bioethics, Vol. 4, No. 2, April 1990.
"The Best of the Baroque," review of Norman Daniels, Am I My Parents' Keeper?
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), Hastings Center Report,
March/April, 1990.
Review of Suicide and Euthanasia, Baruch Brody, ed., in Newsletter of the European
Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care No. 9, Nov. 1990.
Book Note for To Die or Not to Die? Cross-Disciplinary, Cultural, and Legal
Perspectives on the Right to Choose Death, Arthur S. Berger and Joyce Berger,
Eds. (New York: Praeger, 1990), Ethics, July 1992.
Book Note for Ethics and Aging, Nancy Jecker, ed., Humana Press, 1991), Ethics, 1993
Book Note for Death Ethics: Religious and Cultural Values in Prolonging and Ending
Life, by Kenneth L. Vaux (Philadelphia: Trinity Press, l992), Ethics, July 1994,
pp. 927-928.
Book review for A Midwife Through the Dying Process, by Timothy Quill, M.D. (Johns
Hopkins, 1996), The New England Journal of Medicine July 19, 1997.
Book Note for Textbook of Healthcare Ethics, by Erich H. Loewy, M.D. (Plenum,
1996), Ethics, forthcoming April 1998.
Review of False Hopes: Why America’s Quest for Perfect Health Is a Recipe for
Failure, by Daniel Callahan (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998), in The
Washington Monthly, June 1998, pp. 48-50.
Review Essay, “On the Structure of the Euthanasia Debate: Observations Provoked by
a For-and-Against Book" review of Gerald Dworkin, Raymond Frey, and
Sissela Bok, Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide (Cambridge University Press,
1998), and other work. Review Symposium on Euthanasia and Physician-
Assisted Suicide, Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law 25(2) (April,
2000):415-430 (April 2000).

Comments, Case Studies, Short Articles, Notes, etc.

"Simultaneous Cardiac Arrests," Case and Comment, The Hastings Center Report, Vol.
12, No. 2, April 1982.
"On the Relationship between Suicide-Prevention and Suicide-Advocacy Groups,"
appears as article in Hemlock Quarterly, Issue 6, Jan. 1982, and as Letter to the
Editor in Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, Vol. 12, No. 4, Winter 1982.
"Mrs. Bouvia Challenges Law, Medicine, and Morality," Hemlock Quarterly 15:4-6,
April 1984.
"Professional Ethics and the Practice of Religion: A Philosopher's View," in Ethical
Issues in the Practice of Ministry, ed. J. Boyajian, Minneapolis, MN: United
Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, 1984.
Case Comments, "Manipulative Patient, Irresponsible Family, and Nursing Home
'Dump,'" in Ethics in Emergency Medicine, Kenneth V. Iserson, Arthur B.
Sanders, Deborah R. Mathieu, and Allen S. Buchanan, eds., Baltimore:
Williams & Wilkins,1986.
"Why the Slippery Slope Isn't Slippery: A Reply to Walter Weber on the Right to
Die," Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, Vol. 18, No. 2, Summer 1988, pp.
189-193.
“AIDS, Psychiatry, and Euthanasia," by Stephen K. Yarnell, M.D., and Margaret P.
Battin, Psychiatric Annals, 18 (10) 589ff., October 1988.
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"The Contributions of Aesthetics," in Research Readings for Discipline-Based Art
Education, ed. Stephen Mark Dobbs, Reston, VA.: National Art Education
Association, l988.
"Suicide Prevention Centres Fail the Elderly," Current Awareness Bulletin of the
Suicide Information and Education Centre (Calgary, Canada), Vol. 3, No. 3,
Summer 1988.
Case Commentary, "The Chair and Other Public Space," in Everyday Ethics: Resolving
Dilemmas in Nursing Home Life, Rosalie A. Kane and Arthur L. Caplan, eds.,
New York: Springer, 1990.
"Seven Caveats Concerning the Discussion of Euthanasia in Holland, "Perspectives in
Biology and Medicine 34 (1) Autumn 1990; also in Newsletter of the American
Philosophical Association Committee on Philosophy and Medicine, 1990.
"Can We Copy the Dutch? Can Holland's Practice of Voluntary Euthanasia Be a Model
for the United States?" in Controversies in the Care of Dying Patients, Robert I.
Misbin and Ray Mosely, eds., SUNY Press, 1993.
"Holland and Home: On the Exportability of Dutch Euthanasia Practices," in Right to
Self- Determination, Aycke O. A. Smook and Be de Vos-Schippers, eds.,
Amsterdam: Free University Press, 1990.
"Physician-Assisted Suicide--Yes, but in the V.A.?" Newsletter of the Northwest Ethics
Center for Veterans Health Care, Aug. 1992, 8-9.
Case Comment: "The Case of Nicole: Suicide and Terminal Illness," Suicide and Life-
Threatening Behavior 23(1), Spring l993.
"Philosophy as Flash and Character Flaw," in David D. Karnos and Robert G.
Shoemaker, eds., Falling in Love with Wisdom, New York: Oxford University
Press, 1993, pp. 239-242.
"Aesthetics: Threats and Strengths as Disciplinary Issues," American Society for
Aesthetics Newsletter, Winter l993, pp. 5-7.
"Seven (More) Caveats Concerning the Discussion of Euthanasia in the Netherlands,"
Newsletter of the American Philosophical Association Committee on Philosophy
and Medicine 92(1):76-80 (Spring l993).
"Put Up or Shut Up? A Reply to Peggy DesAutels' Defense of Christian Science,"
Journal of Social Philosophy, Vol 26, no. 3, Winter 1995, pp. 113-122.
"Should Older People Have the Right to Commit Suicide?" debate and reply, in Lenard
W. Kaye and Andrew Scharlach, eds., Controversial Issues in Aging, New York:
Allyn and Bacon, 1996.
"A Better Approach to Adolescent Pregnancy" (invited editorial), Social Science &
Medicine 41, no. 9 (1995), 1203-1205. Roundtable, focus article, “Adolescent
Pregnancy: When it is a problem, what is the solution?” Reproductive Health
Matters, Nov. 1996.
“Rational Suicide,” (reworking of chapter from 1982 book Ethical Issues in Suicide), in
Contemporary Perspectives on Rational Suicide, ed. James L. Werth, Jr., New
York: Taylor & Francis, 1999.
Foreword to Assisted Suicide: Canadian Perspectives, ed. C.G. Prado, Ottawa
University Press, forthcoming 2000.

Fiction:
"Indian Red," Irvine Humanities Review, 1973.
"The Sisters," in Bitches and Sad Ladies, Pat Rotter, ed., Harper's Magazine Press,
1975, reprinted in Denmark.
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"Terminal Procedure," American Review, 1975. Reprinted in The Best American Short
Stories 1976, ed. Martha Foley, Houghton Mifflin, 1976.
"The Laboratory Animal," Playgirl, October 1976.
"Dead Slow," Quarterly West, November 1976. Honor Roll, The Best American Short
Stories 1977, ed. Martha Foley. Reprinted in Sweden, South Africa, England,
also Network, Sept. 1982.
"After a Long Flirtation," Playgirl, November 1977. Reprinted in England, Germany.
"The Man in the Window Seat," Damerndas Warld (Denmark), 1979.
"The Astonishing Possibilities of Love," Western Humanities Review, Vol. 36, No. 3,
Autumn 1982.

Papers, Lectures, Talks, and Other Presentations Given at Papers (selected list):
Illinois Aging Network, Peoria; University of Minnesota, Duluth; American Association of
Suicidology, Center for the Shaping of Values, United Theological Seminary, Minneapolis;
Concern for Dying, New York; American Society for Aesthetics; American Philosophical
Association, Pacific Division; University of Washington; International Association for Suicide
Prevention, Vienna, Austria; Veterans Administration Medical Centers, Portland, Salt Lake,
Houston, Grand Junction, Co., White River Junction, Vt; Getty Center for Education in the
Arts; Idaho State University; Bannock Regional Medical Center, Pocatello; Second National
Voluntary Euthanasia Conference, Santa Monica; Conference on Assisted Suicide, Stanford;
University of Chicago; Miami University, Oxford, Ohio; University of Hawaii; University of
Washington; Society for the Scientific Study of Religion; Center for Philosophic Exchange,
SUNY/Brockport; University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston; Ross Medical Center,
Denver; Symposium on Suicide Research in Alberta, Calgary; Association of Catholic
Hospitals, Burlingame; University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa; Auburn University; University of
Utrecht; University of Leiden; the Hemlock Society, the American Psychiatric Association, the
American Association of Suicidology; Brigham Young University; the Royal College of
Physicians and Surgeons of Canada; Portland State University; University of California, Irvine;
Northern Ohio Universities College of Medicine; Texas A&M University; International
Federation of Right-to-Die Societies, Maastricht; Society for Health and Human Values;
American Society for Aesthetics; Women Judges' Fund for Justice; University of Idaho;
University of Amsterdam; University of Amsterdam Medical School; Catholic University of
Nijmegen; Arkansas College; American Society of Law and Medicine; University of Manitoba;
University of Winnipeg; Vanderbilt University; University of Wisconsin; University of
Chicago Medical School; University of Montana; SUNY, Health Science Center at Brooklyn;
National Council for International Health; International Association of Bioethics; University of
Northern Arizona; National Council for International Health; Seattle and Portland Veterans
Administration Medical Centers; Wellesley College; Rochester Institute of Technology; SUNY
Brockport; Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies; University of
Washington, Dept. of Psychiatry; Western Michigan University; Youngstown State University;
Wichita State University; UC Davis School of Medicine; American Bar Association, Senior
Lawyers Division; American Society of Anesthesiology; Washington State Psychological
Association; American Association of Medical Colleges, American Association of Bioethics;
Presbyterian Hospital, Dallas; International Association of Bioethics, Preston, England;
University of Colorado, Boulder; Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing; World
Conference of Right-to-Die Societies, Boston, Hamline University School of Law, Utah Valley
State College, American Pain Society, Undergraduate Conference on Bioethics, Notre Dame;
University of Minnesota Center for Bioethics; International Work Group on Death, Dying and
Bereavement, Maastricht, Netherlands; Law & Society Association, Budapest.
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Named Lectures:
Seamon Lecture, University of Idaho, 1992.
Spinoza Lecture, University of Amsterdam Medical School, 1993.
Reynolds Lecture, University of Utah, 1994.
Davis Lecture, University of Illinois at Chicago Medical School, 1994.
Trachtenberg Lecture, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1998.
Seymour Riklin Lecture, Wayne State University, 1999.
Distinguished Lecture in Medicine, College of Wooster, 2001.

Doctoral Dissertation:
"Plato on Truth and Truthlessness in Poetry."

Professional Organization Memberships:

American Philosophical Association
American Society for Aesthetics
American Association of Suicidology
AMINTAPHIL
European Society for Philosophy of Medic ine and Health Care
American Society for Bioethics and Humanities
International Academy for Suicide Research
International Association for Bioethics

Offices Held :
American Philosophical Association
Pacific Division Program Committee, 1985-88; Pacific Division
Program Chair, l987
Committee on Philosophy and Medicine, l987-90; 1995-98
Pacific Division Executive Committee, 1994-97
Committee on International Cooperation, 2000-2003
American Society for Aesthetics
Trustee, 1985-88
President, Pacific Division, l985-86
American Association of Suicidology
Board of Directors, l986-89
Chair, Ethics Committee, l992-95
Nominating Committee 2000-
American Association of Bioethics (now American Society for Bioethics and Humanities)
Board Member, l993-96
Program Committees for various meetings
American Council of Learned Societies
Delegate, from the American Society for Aesthetics, l990-93
Delegates' Executive Committee, l991-93
Death With Dignity National Center,
Advisory Board -95; Board 1995-
International Association for Bioethics
Board Member, 1997-2001

Listings:
Who's Who in the West.
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Languages:
Rusty Greek, Latin, French; fairly fluent German; some reading knowledge of Dutch; currently
learning Spanish

Consulting or Advisory Editor:

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior
Journal of Aesthetic Education (1987-1989)
Journal of Pharmaceutical Care in Pain & Symptom Control (1995-)
Professional Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Journal (l993- )
APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy (1993- )
Social Science and Medicine (-96)
Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics
Ethical Theory and Moral Practice (Netherlands, 1997-)
Phi Beta Kappa, Emerson Prize Committee (1998)
Bioethics (Australia) (1998-
Western Journal of Medicine (1999- )
Health Care Analysis (1999- )
The Philosopher’s Index, Editorial Board (2000-)

Book Series:
Co-editor, with Leslie Francis, of Ethics in a Changing World, book series in health,
technology, and the environment, University of Utah Press (-93)

Courses Taught:
Bioethics, Professional Ethics, Aesthetics, Philosophy in Literature, Intellectual Tradition of
the West (Ancient, Medieval, Modern, and Contemporary), Business Ethics, Problems in
Human Values, Informal Logic, Philosophy of Religion, Special Topics in Bioethics, Ethics in
Organized Religion, Seminar in Applied Ethics, Ethical Issues in Reproduction, Ethical Issues
in Death and Dying, Ethical Issues in Global Population Growth, Justice in Health Care and
Genetics, Ethics and Infectious Disease, Environmental Ethics; special topics in Bioethics.

Department, University, and Other Committees:

Curriculum Committee 1978-79, 80-82; Undergraduate Committee, 1979-81; University
Relations Committee (chair), 1978-82; Director, Intellectual Traditions of the West staff, 1979-
81; Honors Program Advisory Committee, 1980-81; Campus Art Advisory Committee, 1981-
82; Enrichment Committee (chair), 1982; Committee for Review of Research on Human
Subjects, Behavioral Sciences, 1981-82; Medical Scienc es 1984-7; Academic Policy Advisory
Committee 1985-87; 89-92, chair 90-9l); Tanner Lecture Committee, 1985-; Academic Senate,
1986-89; Personnel and Elections Committee, 1986-87; Executive Committee, Academic
Senate, 1987-89; Ethics Committee, Veterans Administration Medical Center; Utah Medical
Association Blue Ribbon Committee on Medical Ethics, 1985-; Chair, Tanner Lecture
Committee, 88-01 ; Board, ACLU of Utah, 1989 - ; Rosenblatt Prize Committee, 1989-90;
Committee for Review of Research on Human Subjects, Medical Sciences, l990-93; College of
Humanities Retention, Promotion and Tenure Committee, l99l-92; University Press Committee,
l99l- ; Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program Advisory Board, l99l-; LDS Hospital
Ethics Committee; Applied Ethics Program, Chair, 1991-94, 95-; Task Force on International
Studies, 1994-; Scheduling Committee, 1995-; Committee for Review of Research on Human
Subjects, Behavioral Sciences, 1995-; Behavioral Sciences and Health Area Committee, 1997-;
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Genetics Science in Society Program, Human Genome Research Center; Budget and Personnel
Committee, Dept. of Philosophy, 1997-98; Chair, Development Committee, 98-; Honors
Program Review Committee.

Literary Agent:

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