William Ruddick

Ph.D. 1964 Harvard
M.A. 1963 Oxford
A.B. 1953 Princeton

Philosophy of science and medicine, professional and applied ethics.

International Association for Bioethics, American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, Hastings Center.

Arthur Zitrin Professor of Bioethics. Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship; National Science Foundation Faculty Fellowship; National Endowment for the Humanities Award.

 

Online Papers

• “Biomedical and environmental ethics alliance: Common causes and grounds” (J. Bioethical Inquiry 2009)
• “‘Biographical Lives’ revisited & extended,” J. of Ethics July 2005
• “Hope and Deception,” Bioethics 13:3/4 (1999)
• “Do doctors undertreat pain?,” Bioethics 11:3/4 1997
• “Parenthood: Three concepts and a principle,” Morals, Marriage, and Parenthood, ed. L.D.Houlgate 1998
• “Medical Ethics,” Encyclopedia of Ethics, eds. L. & C. Becker, 2nd edition (1998)
• “Commemorating 9/11: Anesthesia, Buffing, & Footprints” (draft)
• “Death for doctors” (draft)

Recent Courses

Undergraduate

• Life and Death
• Medical Ethics
• Topics in Ethics & Political Philosophy

Graduate

• Life and Death
• Reproductive Ethics
• Clinical Ethics
• Advanced Introduction to Bioethics