Ruth Macklin Explained

Honorific Prefix:Dr.
Ruth Macklin
Birth Name: Ruth Chimacoff
Birth Date:27 March 1938
Birth Place:Newark, New Jersey
Nationality:American
Alma Mater:Cornell University Case Western Reserve University
Awards:Lifetime Achievement Award, Yenepoya University, Mangaluru, India, Lifetime Achievement Award, Public Responsibility in Research & Medicine (PRIM&R), Hastings Center’s Henry Knowles Beecher Award, Global Forum on Bioethics in Research, Award for contributions to progress in international research ethics, Lifetime Achievement Award in Recognition of Outstanding Contributions and Significant Publications in Bioethics and Humanities, American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, Resident fellowship at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Study and Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy
Institutions:Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York City
Main Interests:Bioethics

Ruth Macklin is an American philosopher and retired professor of bioethics.

Education

Ruth Macklin studied philosophy at Cornell University then received Ph.D. in philosophy from Case Western Reserve University.

Career

She is distinguished university professor emerita at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. She has more than 280 scholarly publications and books on HIV/AIDS, the ethics of human reproduction, the ethics of human subjects in research, health policy, public health ethics, and more. She has been adviser to the World Health Organization, chairperson of a committee at UNAIDS 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, co-chair of the National Advisory Board on Ethics in Reproduction, is a member of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, served as president of the International Association of Bioethics, 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.[1] Macklin is a fellow of the Hastings Center, an independent bioethics research institution.[2]

Selected bibliography

Books

Journal articles

See also

Notes and References

  1. http://www.princeton.edu/~bioethic/about_us/advisors/macklin.html Ruth Macklin, Ph.D.
  2. http://www.thehastingscenter.org/About/Default.aspx?id=902 The Hastings Center

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