Moreno, Jonathan D.

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MORENO, Jonathan D.

MORENO, Jonathan D. American. Genres: Ethics. Career: Hastings Center, staff member, 1984-85; George Washington University, Washington, DC, joint appointment in philosophy and medicine, 1985-89; Children's National Medical Center, philosopher-in-residence, 1985-89; State University of New York Health Science Center, Brooklyn, NY, professor of pediatrics and medicine, 1989-98, founder and director, Division of Humanities in Medicine, 1989-98; Senior Policy and Research Analyst for the President's Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments, 1994-95; University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, Emily Davie and Joseph S. Kornfeld professor of biomedical ethics and director, Center for Biomedical Ethics, 1998-; Full-time faculty appointments in the philosophy departments of Swarthmore College, the University of Texas at Austin, and George Washington University in Washington, DC; consultant; guest on radio and television programs. Publications: (with J.C. Ahronheim and C. Zuckerman) Ethics in Clinical Practice, 1994; Deciding Together: Bioethics and Moral Consensus, 1995; Undue Risk: Secret State Experiments on Humans, 1999. EDITOR: (with B.R. Glassner), Discourse in the Social Sciences: Strategies for Translating Models of Mental Illness, 1982; (with B.R. Glassner), The Qualitative-Quantitative Distinction in the Social Sciences, 1989; Paying the Doctor: Health Policy and Physician Reimbursement, 1991; Arguing Euthanasia: The Controversy over Mercy Killing, Assisted Suicide, and the Right to Die, 1995. Author of papers; contributor of book chapters to publications. Address: Center for Biomedical Ethics, University of Virginia, PO Box 800758, Charlottesville, VA 22908, U.S.A.

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