Dan W. Brock
Charles C. Tillinghast, Jr. University Professor, Professor of Philosophy and Biomedical Ethics, and Director, Center for Biomedical Ethics at Brown University
Ph.D. Columbia University
Office: 201 Gerard House, 54 College St.
Office Phone: (401) 863-3204
E-Mail:Dan_Brock@brown.edu
Office Hours
Research Interests
Biomedical ethics, Ethics
Current Work
Genetics and justice, Health care resource prioritization and rationing, end of life care and euthanasia
Recent Seminar Topics
Justice, Resource Prioritization, and Health Care Rationing
Can Morality Be Rationally Justified?
Philosophical Theories of the Good for Persons
Selected Recent Published Works
"Priority to the Worst Off in Health Care Resource Prioritization," in
Health Care and Social Justice, eds. M. Battin, R. Rhodes and A. Silvers.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
"Health Care Resource Prioritization and Discrimination Against Persons
with Disabilities", in Americans With Disabilities: Implications for
Individuals and Institutions. Eds. Leslie Francis and Anita Silvers. New
York: Routledge, 2000.
"Broadening the Bioethics Agenda", Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal,
10 (2000) 21-38.
"A Critique of Three Objections to Physician-assisted Suicide" Ethics,
109 (1999). 519-47.
"Cloning Human Beings: An Assessment of the Ethical Issues Pro and Con," in Clones and Clones: Facts and Fantasies About Human Cloning, eds. M. Nussbaum and C. Sunstein (New York: W. W. Norton, 1998).
"Public Moral Discourse," in Society's Choices: Social and Ethical Decision Making in Biomedicine, Bulger, et. al. eds., (National Academy Press, 1995)
"Justice and the ADA: Does Prioritizing and Rationing Health Care Discriminate Against the D
isabled?" Social Philosophy and Policy 12 (Summer 1995)
Life and Death: Philosophical Essays in Biomedical Ethics, (Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993
"Voluntary Active Euthanasia," Hastings Center Report 22 (March/April 1992) 10-22.
Deciding for Others: The Ethics of Surrogate Decision Making (with Allen Buchanan), (Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989)
