Engelhardt, H(ugo) Tristram, Jr.

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ENGELHARDT, H(ugo) Tristram, Jr.

ENGELHARDT, H(ugo) Tristram, Jr. American, b. 1941. Genres: Ethics, Medicine/Health, Philosophy. Career: University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, assistant professor, 1972-75, associate professor, 1975-77; Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service, faculty, 1977-78, professor of philosophy, professor of health and humanities, Rosemary Kennedy Professor of the Philosophy of Medicine, and senior research scholar at Kennedy Institute of Ethics, all 1977-82; Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, professor of community medicine, 1983-, professor of medical ethics and professor of obstetrics and gynecology, both 1990-2001, professor emeritus, 2001-; Institute of Religion, Houston, adjunct research fellow, 1983-2001; Rice University, professor, 1983-; Centro Oncologico de Excelencia, Buenos Aires, member of consulting medical staff, 1987-94; University of Adelaide, M.S. McLeod Visiting Professor, 1987. Lecturer at colleges and universities in the United States and abroad. Publications: Mind-Body, 1973; (trans. with R.M. Zaner) A. Schutz and T. Luckmann, The Structures of the Life-World, 1973; The Foundations of Bioethics, 1986, 2nd ed., 1996; (with B.A. Brody) Bioethics, 1987; Bioethics and Secular Humanism, 1991; The Foundations of Christian Bioethics, 2000. EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTOR: (with S.F. Spicker) Evaluation and Explanation in the Biomedical Sciences, 1975; (with Spicker) Philosophical Dimensions of the Neuro-Medical Sciences, 1976; (with D. Callahan) Science, Ethics, and Medicine, 1976; (with Spicker) Philosophical Medical Ethics, 1977; (with Callahan) Knowledge, Value, and Belief, 1977; The Encyclopedia of Bioethics, 1978; (with Callahan) Morals, Science, and Sociality, 1978; (with Callahan) Knowing and Valuing, 1980; (with J.M. Healey and Spicker) The Law-Medicine Relation, 1981; (with W.B. Bondeson, Spicker, and J.M. White) New Knowledge in the Biomedical Sciences, 1982; (with others) Abortion and the Status of the Fetus, 1983, 2nd ed., 1984; (with R.C. McMillan and Spicker) Euthanasia and the Newborn, 1987; (with Spicker and Bondeson) The Contraceptive Ethos, 1987; (with others) The Use of Human Beings in Research, 1988; (with T. Pinkard) Hegel Reconsidered, 1994. EDITOR WITH OTHERS: Mental Health, 1978; Clinical Judgment, 1979; Mental Illness, 1980; Concepts of Health and Disease, 1981; The Roots of Ethics, 1981; Scientific Controversies, 1987; Sicherheit und Freiheit, 1991. Work represented in anthologies. Contributor to medical and philosophy journals. Address: 2802 Lafayette, Houston, TX 77005-3038, U.S.A.

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