Daniel Sulmasy

Prof. of Medicine and Ethics at University of Chicago

Member of the Presidential Bioethics Commission

Dr. Daniel Sulmasy is a Kilbride-Clinton Professor of Medicine and Ethics in the Department of Medicine and Divinity School at the University of Chicago, where he serves as Associate Director of the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics and as Director of the Program on Medicine and Religion. He received his AB and MD degrees from Cornell University and holds a PhD in philosophy from Georgetown University. Sulmasy was appointed to the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues by President Obama in 2010. His research interests encompass both theoretical and empirical investigations of the ethics of end-of-life decision-making, ethics education, and spirituality in medicine. He is the author or editor of six books, including “Safe Passage: A Global Spiritual Sourcebook for Care at the End of Life” (2014). He also serves as editor-in-chief of the journal Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics.

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Legalize Assisted Suicide

With Baroness Ilora Finlay, Peter Singer, Andrew Solomon, Daniel Sulmasy

November 13, 2014

In 1994, Oregon voters passed the Death with Dignity Act, which legalized physician-assisted suicide for the terminally ill. Since then, it has become legal in 4 more states, including New Mexico, where the state court ruling that it is constitutional is under appeal. Is it, in the words of the American Medical Association’s code of ethics, “fundamentally incompatible with the physician’s role as healer”? Will these laws lead to a slippery slope, where the vulnerable are pressured to choose death…

Legalize Assisted Suicide

With Baroness Ilora Finlay, Peter Singer, Andrew Solomon, Daniel Sulmasy

November 13, 2014

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