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CURRICULUM VITAE
Margaret Pabst Battin, M.F.A., Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor, Department of Philosophy
Adjunct Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities
University of Utah
Department of Philosophy Date of vita: December 14, 2015
CTIHB, Room 423
University of Utah office phone: (801) 581-6608
Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-9156 office fax: (801) 585-5195 home phone: (801) 359-1970
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Education:
Bryn Mawr College, B.A., magna cum laude with Honors in Philosophy, 1963,
including University of Munich, 1961-2
University of California/Irvine, M.F.A. (Fiction Writing), 1973
University of California/Irvine, Ph.D. (Philosophy), 1976
Employment:
current positions:
Distinguished Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Utah, 2000-
Adjunct Professor, Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, 1990-
past positions:
Instructor, Pitzer College, The Claremont Colleges, Fall 1974
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Utah, 1975-77
Assistant Professor, University of Utah, 1977-81; Philosopher-in-Residence,
Veterans Administration Medical Center, Salt Lake, Winter 1981
Associate Professor, University of Utah, July 1981-88
Professor, University of Utah, 1988-2000
Honors, Fellowships, and Awards:
Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 1963-64 (Honorary)
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for Independent Study and Research, 1977-78
Utah Arts Council, First Prize for Book-length Collection of Short Stories, 1981
David P. Gardner Curriculum Development Award, University of Utah, Winter 1984
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend 1986
University of Utah Faculty Fellow Awards, Spring 1980, Autumn 1988, Autumn 1997, Spring 2002
Ramona W. Cannon Award for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities, University of Utah, co-recipient 1988
Spinoza Chair, University of Amsterdam, Academic Medical Center, The Netherlands, Spring l993
Humanities Center Fellowship, University of Utah, l994-95.
Annette P. Cumming Community Service Award, Planned Parenthood of Utah, 1994.
Distinguished Research Award, University of Utah, 1997.
Named Distinguished Professor, University of Utah, 2000.
Rosenblatt Prize, University of Utah, 2000
Distinguished Honors Professor, 2002-03
Named among the “Mothers of Bioethics,” 2007.
University Professorship (with A. Lipman, E. Luna), 2007-2008
Publications:
Books:
Ethical Issues in Suicide, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, first
version 1982; revised and expanded version, trade-titled
The Death Debate, 1995.
Suicide: The Philosophical Issues, edited by Margaret P. Battin and David J. Mayo. New York: St. Martin's, 1980; London: Peter Owen, Ltd., 1981.
John Donne, Biathanatos, a modern-spelling critical edition, edited by Michael Rudick and Margaret P. Battin. New York: Garland Publishing Company, 1982.
Should Medical Care be Rationed by Age?, edited by Timothy Smeeding with Margaret P. Battin, Leslie P. Francis, and Bruce M. Landesman, Totowa, N.J.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1987.
Puzzles About Art: An Aesthetics Casebook, by Margaret P. Battin, Anita Silvers, Ronald Moore, and John Fisher. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989.
Ethical Issues in the Professions, by Peter Y. Windt, Peter C. Appleby, Margaret P. Battin, Leslie P. Francis, and Bruce M. Landesman. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1989.
Ethics in the Sanctuary: Examining the Practices of Organized Religion. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1990.
Changing to National Health Care: The Ethical Issues, edited by Robert P. Huefner and Margaret P. Battin, Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press, 1992.
The Least Worst Death: Essays in Bioethics on the End of Life, Oxford
University Press, 1994.
Translated into Spanish by Laura Manriquez as La menos mala de las muertes, Mexico, Buenos Aires, Barcelona: Paidós, 2006.
The Death Debate: Ethical Issues in Suicide. Trade version of Ethical
Issues in Suicide, 1982, revised 1995. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1996.
Physician-Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate, edited by Margaret P. Battin, Rosamond Rhodes and Anita Silvers. New York: Routledge, 1998.
Praying for a Cure: When Medical and Religious Practices Conflict, by Peggy DesAutels, Margaret P. Battin, and Larry May. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999.
Medicine and Social Justice: Essays on the Distribution of Health Care, Rosamond Rhodes, Margaret P. Battin, and Anita Silvers, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002, second edition 2012.
The Case for Physician-Assisted Dying: The Right to Excellent End-of-Life Care and Patient Choice, Timothy Quill and Margaret P. Battin, eds., Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.
Ending Life: Ethics and the Way We Die. New York: Oxford University Press,
2005.
Ethics and Infectious Disease, edited by Michael J. Selgelid, Margaret P.
Battin, and Charles B. Smith. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006.
Death, Dying, and the Ending of Life, edited by Margaret P. Battin, Leslie
P. Francis, and Bruce L. Landesman. International Library of
Medicine, Ethics, and Law. Ashgate, 2007.
Drugs and Justice: Seeking a Consistent, Coherent, Comprehensive
View, by Margaret P. Battin, Erik Luna, Arthur G. Lipman, Paul M.
Gahlinger, Douglas E. Rollins, Jeannette Roberts, and Troy L. Booher. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
The Patient as Victim and Vector: Ethics and Infectious Disease, by
Margaret P. Battin, Leslie P. Francis, Jay A. Jacobson, and Charles
B. Smith. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
The Ethics of Suicide: Historical Sources. Oxford University Press, in Library/Press partnership with J. Willard Marriot Library at the University of Utah for associated online Digital Archive, 2015.
Journal Issues Guest-edited:
Suicide and Ethical Theory, edited by Margaret P. Battin and Ronald Maris, special issue of Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, Vol. 13, No. 4 (Winter 1983); also published as an independent volume by Human Sciences Press, 1983.
Legal Euthanasia: Ethical Issues in an Era of Legalized Aid in Dying,
edited by Margaret P. Battin and Thomas J. Bole, III, special issue of The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, Vol. 18, No. 3 (June l993).
Drug Use in Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia, edited by Margaret P. Battin
and Arthur J. Lipman, two special double issues of the Journal of Pharmaceutical Care in Pain & Symptom Control, nos. 3 and 4, 1995, and nos. 1 and 2, 1996 ; also published as an independent volume, Binghamton NY: Pharmaceutical Products Press, Haworth Press, 1996.
Ethics and Infectious Disease, edited by Michael J. Selgelid and Margaret P.
Battin, Special issue of Bioethics, Vol. 19, no. 4, August 2005.
Books in Progress:
Sex & Consequences: Changing the Default Mechanism in Human Reproduction.
On the conflict between population growth control and reproductive
freedom; expected completion date 2016.
Puzzles About Disability, by Adrienne Asch, Margaret P. Battin, Teresa Blankenmeyer Burke, Gretchen Case, Leslie Francis, and Anita Silvers, under contract, Oxford University Press; expected completion date 2016.
Journal Articles or Articles in Collections:
"Aristotle's Definition of Tragedy in the Poetics," The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Part I: Vol. XXXIII, No. 2, Winter 1974; Part II: Vol. XXXIII No. 3, Spring 1975.
"Plato on True and False Poetry," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Vol. XXXVI, No. 2, Winter 1977.
"Exact Replication in the Visual Arts," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Vol. XXXVIII, No. 2, Winter 1979.
"Manipulated Suicide," Bioethics Quarterly, Vol. 2, No. 2, Summer 1980, and in Battin & Mayo volume, above.
"The Least Worst Death: Selective Refusal of Treatment," The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 13, No. 2, April 1983, pp. 13-16.
"Telling Confessions: Confidentiality and the Practice of Religion," Sunstone, Vol. 8, No. 6, Nov.-Dec. 1983, pp. 23-33.
"Applied Professional Ethics and Institutional Religion: The Methodologi- cal Issues," The Monist, Vol. 67, No. 4, 1984.
"Non-Patient Decision-Making in Medicine: The Eclipse of Altruism," The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, Vol. 10, 1985, pp. 19-44.
"The Dreariness of Aesthetics (Continued), With a Remedy," Journal of Aesthetic Education, Vol. 20, Number 4, Winter 1986; reprinted as "Case Problems in Aesthetics," in Aesthetics and Arts
Education, ed. Ralph A. Smith and Alan Simpson,
Urbana and Chicago: Univ. of Illinois Press, l99l.
"Euthanasia," in Health Care Ethics: An Introduction, Donald VanDeVeer and Tom Regan, eds., Temple University Press, 1987.
"Choosing the Time to Die: The Ethics and Economics of Suicide in Old Age," in Ethical Dimensions of Geriatric Care: Value Conflicts for the 21st Century, I. Lawson, S. Spicker, and S. Ingram, eds. Philosophy and Medicine Symposium Series No. 18, Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1987.
"Age-Rationing and the Just Distribution of Health Care: Is There a Duty to Die?" Ethics, Vol. 97, No. 2, January 1987. Reprinted in Bioethics News (Australia), Vol. 7, No. 1, Oct. 1987; and in The
Moral Life, Steven Luper-Foy and Curtis Brown, eds., Holt, Rinehard and Winston, l992.
"Lessons from Ethics: Case-driven Aesthetics and Approaches to Theory," in T. Anderberg, T. Nilstun, and I. Persson, eds., Aesthetic Distinction: Essays Presented to Goran Hermeren on his 50th Birthday, Lund, Sweden; Lund University Press, 1988.
"High-Risk Religion," Philosophic Exchange, (double issue #19-20, 1988- 89, pp. 25-70, (chapter 3 of Ethics in the Sanctuary, above).
"Organized Religion: New Target for Professional Ethics?" Journal of Social Philosophy, Vol. 20, Nos. 1 and 2, June 1989.
"Euthanasia: The Way We Do It, The Way They Do It," Journal of Pain
and Symptom Management, Vol. 6, No. 5, July l99l; rev. version in
Health Care Ethics, Monagle and Thomasma, eds., Gaithersburg:
Aspen Publishers, l994; also reprinted in Biomedical Ethics, ed.
Thomas A. Mappes and David DeGrazia, McGraw-Hill, 1995.
"Rational Suicide? How Can We Respond to a Request for Help?" Crisis (Journal of the International Association for Suicide Prevention) l2:2 (l99l).
"Euthanasia in Alzheimer's Disease?" in Dementia and Aging: Ethics, Values, and Policy Choices, Robert Binstock, Stephen Post, and Peter J. Whitehouse, eds., Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.
"Dying in 559 Beds: Efficiency, "Best Buys," and the Ethics of Standardization in National Health Care," Journal of Medicine and Philosophy,17(l); 59-77 (l992); also in Huefner and Battin, below.
"Voluntary Euthanasia and the Risks of Abuse: Can We Learn Anything from the Netherlands?" Law Medicine, and Health Care 20:1-2:
133-143 (Spring/Summer, 1992).
"Assisted Suicide: Can We Learn from Germany?" The Hastings Center Report 22(2):44-51 (March-April 1992).
"Intergenerational Justice, Political Conflict, and the Prudential Lifespan
Solution in Health Care," in Economic Security and
Intergenerational Justice: A Look at North America, ed. Theodore R. Marmor, Timothy M. Smeeding, and Vernon Greene.
Washington D.C.: The Urban Institute Press, 1994.
"Suicidology and the Right to Die," in Suicidology: Essays in Honor of
Edwin S. Shneidman, ed. Antoon Leenaars. Northvale, N.J.:
Jason Aronson, l993.
"Is There a Place for Euthanasia in America's Care for the Elderly?" in
Choosing Who's to Live: Ethics and Aging, James W. Walters ed.,
Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, l996, pp. 49-71.
"Cases for Kids: Using Puzzle Cases to Teach Aesthetics to Children,"
Journal of Aesthetic Education, Vol 28, no. 3 (Fall 1994), pp. 89- 104; reprinted in Aesthetics for Young People, ed. Ronald Moore,
National Art Education Association, 1995.
"Reading Religions: A Reply to Callahan, Martin, and Quinn," Professional
Ethics, Vol. 3, no. 2, 1994; response in symposium on my book
Ethics in the Sanctuary.
"Physicians, Partners, and People with AIDS: Deciding about Suicide,"
Crisis (Journal of the International Association for Suicide
Prevention), Vol. 15, no. 1, l994.
"Going Early, Going Late: The Rationality of Decisions about Suicide in
AIDS," Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, December 1994; reprinted in Udo Shüklenk, ed., AIDS, Society, Ethics and Law, a volume in the series International Librarty of Medicine, Ethics and Law, Aldershot, UK, and Burlington, Vt., USA, Ashgate Publishing Ltd., forthcoming 2001.
"A Dozen Caveats Concerning the Discussion of Euthanasia in the
Netherlands," in Jonathan Moreno, ed., Arguing Euthanasia
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.
"The Least Worst Death: Selective Refusal of Treatment, Physician-Assisted
Suicide, and Euthanasia" (updated version of 1983 paper), Vorträge
des Internationalen Kongresses "Das Gewissen der Medizin," April
` 1993, Österreichische Gesellschaft für Gesundheitsökonomie (Vienna), Gesundheits-Oeconomica, 1995. pp. 161-169.
"Color y Cultura: La anticoncepcion automatica y su impacto en la poblacion
urbana negra norteamericana y en la de paises en desarrollo,”
Perspectivas Bioéticas en las Americas, vol. 2, no. 1, 1997, pp.
64-92 (translated).
“Sex and Consequences: World Population Growth versus Reproductive
Rights,” Philosophic Exchange, 1997.
“Suicide and Rights,” in John Donnelly, ed., Suicide: Right or Wrong?
Amherst, NY: Promethus, 1998, pp. 283-299, abridged from
Battin, Ethical Issues in Suicide, above.
"Physician-Assisted Suicide: Does the Physician Have an Obligation to
Help?" in Regulating How We Die: Ethical, Medical, and Legal Issues Surrounding Physician-Assisted Suicide , ed. Linda Emanuel, MD, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.
“Population,” in Peter Singer and Helga Kuhse, eds., Companion to Bioethics, 2nd edition. Oxford: Blackwells, 1999.
“Physician-Assisted Suicide: Safe, Legal, and Rare?” In Battin, Rhodes and Silvers, eds., Physician-Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate., New York: Routledge, 1998 (above).
“Genetic Information and Knowing When You Will Die,” in A. Thompson and R. Chadwick, eds., Genetic Information: Acquisition, Access, and Control (New York: Plenum, 1999).
“What are the Potential Cost Savings from Legalizing Physician-Assisted
Suicide?” by Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Margaret P. Battin,
New England Journal of Medicine 339(3):167-172 (July 16, 1998)
“Global Life Expectancies and the Duty to Die,” in James M. Humber and Robert F. Almeder, eds., Biomedical Ethics Reviews, special issue “Is There a Duty to Die?” Totowa, NJ: Humana Press, 1999,
pp. 1-22.
“On the Structure of the Euthanasia Debate: Observations Provoked by a Near-Perfect For-and-Against Book.” Review Symposium on Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide, Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law 25(2):415-430 (April 2000).
“The Euthanasia Debate in the United States: Conflicting Claims About the
Netherlands,” in Hans Krabbendam and Hans-Martien ten Napel, eds.,Regulating Morality: A Comparison of the Role of the State in Mastering the Mores in the Netherlands and the United States (Antwerpen-Apeldoorn: E. M. Meijers Institute, Maklu-Uitgevers, 2000), pp. 151-171.
“Safe, Legal, Rare? Physician-Assisted Suicide and Cultural Change in the Future” (revised and expanded version of “Physician-Assisted
Suicide: Safe, Legal, Rare?, above) in both: Loretta Kopelman and Kenneth DeVille, eds, Physician-Assisted Suicide (Kluwer, 2001).
pp. 187-201, and in: Diego DeLeo, ed., Suicide and Euthanasia in Older Adults: A Transcultural Journey, Seattle- Toronto-Bern-Göttingen: Hogrefe & Huber Publishers, 2001. In Italian in Questioni di fine vita. Riflessioni bioetiche al femminile, edited by Carla Faralli and Silvia Zullo. Bononia University Press, 2008.