Medical Ethics

French President Names IUPUI Professor a "Chevalier"

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May 7, 2008 — IUPUI Professor Eric M. Meslin, director of the Indiana University Center for Bioethics, was named a Chevalier de L'Ordre National du Merite - Knight of the National Order of Merit - by the President of France.   Full Story

New Programs Combines Medical and Philosophy Degrees for Bioethics Impact

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Feb. 27, 2007 — As the development, delivery, financing, and regulation of healthcare products and services continue as major economic and social endeavors, the field of bioethics - the ethics of the health and life sciences - is growing rapidly in importance, both nationally and internationally.   Full Story


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David Orentlicher

Samuel R. Rosen Professor of Law

Before coming to the law school in 1995, David Orentlicher served as director of the Division of Medical Ethics at the American Medical Association for six-and-a-half years. He also held adjunct appointments at the University of Chicago Law School and Northwestern University Medical School, and from 1992 to 1995, served on the founding board of the American Association of Bioethics. Following law school, where he was a commentary and book review office chair of the Harvard Law Review, he clerked for the Honorable Alvin B. Rubin, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He has practiced both medicine and law, each for about two years. In March 1995, he was a George E. Allen Professor of Law at T. C. Williams School of Law, University of Richmond, and during the 1997-98 academic year he was the Visiting DeCamp Professor in Bioethics at Princeton University.

He published, Matters of Life and Death, with Princeton University Press, and he is also a co-author of the casebook, Health Care Law and Ethics. His more than 80 articles in leading legal and medical journals address critical issues in medical ethics, including end-of-life decisions, new reproductive technologies, and managed care.

Currently, he is on the core faculty of the Indiana University Center for Bioethics, an adjunct professor of medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine, and a member of the American Law Institute. He also serves on the board of the Gennesaret Free Clinic. Since November 2002, he has served in the Indiana House of Representatives.

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