Caplan, Arthur L.

Autor: Caplan, Arthur L.
Rok: 1950-

Biogr./Hist. údaje: Americký profesor bioetiky.
Zdroj: Autoritní databáze Národní knihovny ČR

Arthur L. Caplan, Ph.D., is the Drs. William F and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor, and head of the Division of Medical Ethics, at New York University, Langone Medical Center, in New York City. Prior to coming to NYU he was the Sidney D Caplan Professor of Bioethics, and the Emmanuel and Robert Hart director of the Center for Bioethics, at the University of Pennsylvania. Caplan has also taught at the University of Minnesota, the University of Pittsburgh, and Columbia University. He was the Associate Director of the Hastings Center from 1984-1987. Born in Boston, Caplan did his undergraduate work at Brandeis University where he majored in philosophy. He did his graduate work at Columbia University, where he received a Ph.D. in the history and philosophy of science.While at the University of Pennsylvania, he became the first bioethicist sued for his professional role as a result of his involvement in a gene therapy trial that resulted in the death of research subject Jesse Gelsinger. The suit was subsequently dismissed by the trial court as without meritCaplan secured the first apology for the Tuskegee Study from Lewis Sullivan M.D., then secretary of HHS, in 1991. He worked with William Seidelman, M.D., and others, to secure, in 2012, an apology from the German Medical Association for the role of German physicians in the Holocaust.Caplan has made many contributions to public policy including: helping to found the National Marrow Donor Program, creating the policy of required request in cadaver organ donation adopted throughout the USA, helping to create the system for distributing organs in the USA, and advising on the content of the National Organ Transplant Act, rules governing living organ donation, and legislation and regulation in many other areas of health care.