Baruch Brody is an American

United States

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 bioethicist who was among the first scholars in the field of applied ethics

Applied ethics

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 to write about abortion in the era following Roe v. Wade

Roe v. Wade

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. He is Director of the Center for Ethics, Medicine and Public Issues at The Baylor College of Medicine

Baylor College of Medicine

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 and Andrew Mellow professor of Humanities in the Department of Philosophy at Rice University

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Brody received his B.A. from Brooklyn College

Brooklyn College

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 in 1962 and his Ph. D. from Princeton University

Princeton University

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 in 1967. He was elected to the Institute of Medicine

Institute of Medicine

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 in 2001 and is a fellow of the Hastings Center

Hastings Center

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Publications

• Identity and Essence (Princeton, 1980).
• Life and Death Decision Making (Oxford University Press, 1987).
• Ethical Issues in Drug Testing Approval and Pricing (Oxford University Press, 1994)
• The Ethics of Biomedical Research (Oxford University Press, 1998)
• Taking Issue (Georgetown, 2005)