Margaret Pabst Battin

Professor

battin@utah.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Department of Philosophy
University of Utah
260 S. Central Campus Drive
Orson Spencer Hall, Room 341
Salt Lake City, UT 84112

phone: (801) 581-6608
fax: (801) 585-5195  

Brief Biography: Margaret Pabst Battin is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Adjunct Professor of Internal Medicine, Division of Medical Ethics, at the University of Utah. She is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College, and holds an M.F.A. in fiction-writing and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of California at Irvine.

The author of prize-winning short stories and recipient of the University of Utah's Distinguished Research Award, she has authored, edited, or co-edited fifteen books, among them a study of philosophical issues in suicide; a scholarly edition of John Donne's Biathanatos; a collection on age-rationing of medical care; Puzzles About Art , a volume of case-puzzles in aesthetics; a text on professional ethics; Ethics in the Sanctuary, a study of ethical issues in organized religion; and a collection of her essays on end-of-life issues, entitled The Least Worst Death.

She has been engaged in research on active euthanasia and assisted suicide in the Netherlands. She has also published Ethical Issues in Suicide, trade-titled The Death Debate , as well as several co-edited or co-authored collections, including Drug Use in Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide ; Physician-Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate ; Praying for a Cure, a jointly authored volume on the ethics of religious refusal of medical treatment; and Medicine and Social Justice.

She is currently at work on a historical sourcebook on ethical issues in suicide, a book on world population growth and reproductive rights, and two multiauthored projects, one on ethics and infectious disease and one on drugs and justice. In 2000, she was a co-recipient of the Rosenblatt Prize, the University of Utah's most prestigious award, and was named Distinguished Honors Professor in 2002-03. A second collection of her essays (and fiction) on end-of-life issues, entitled Ending Life, was published in spring 2005 by Oxford University Press.

Courses:

• Bioethics
• Engineering Ethics
• Honors Seminar in Medical Ethics
• Seminars: Topics vary. Recent topics: ethics and infectious disease, ethics and the end of life; ethics and reproductive medicine; drugs and justice.
  

Recent Publications:

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