Arthur Caplan
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| Born | 1950 Boston, Massachusetts |
| Nationality | U.S.A. |
| Fields | Bioethics |
| Institutions | NYU Langone Medical Center Division of Medical Ethics, University of Pennsylvania, University of Minnesota, The Hastings Center |
| Alma mater | Brandeis University, Columbia University |
| Doctoral advisor | Ernest Nagel and Sidney Morgenbesser |
| Spouses | Jane Caplan, Meg Brennan Caplan |
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Website http://pophealth.med.nyu.edu/divisions/medical-ethics |
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 “The Ethics of Genetically Engineering Children”, Arthur Caplan, December 2, 2008 |
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”Dying in a Democracy”, Arthur Caplan, March 2013 |
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”Organ Harvest in China and Killing on Demand ”, Arthur Caplan, April 3, 2012 |
Arthur L. Caplan, Ph.D. (1950- ), is the Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor of Bioethics at New York University's Langone Medical Center. He is the founding director of NYULMC's Division of Medical Ethics. According to Google Scholar, his published books and articles have resulted in an H-index of 47 and an I10-index of 87, since 2009.
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 United States; helping to create the system for distributing organs in the U.S.; and advising on the content of the National Organ Transplant Act of 1984, rules governing living organ donation, and legislation and regulation in many other areas of health care including blood safety and compassionate use.
Caplan secured the first apology for the Tuskegee Syphilis 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 Nazi prison experiments during the Holocaust.
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1950 to Sidney D. and Natalie Caplan, Arthur Caplan grew up in Framingham, Mass. He has described his family as "Workmen's Circle, Zionist, and secular." He credits his background of Judaism with stimulating his interest in methods of inquiry and argument. At age six, Caplan was diagnosed with polio. He was successfully treated at Children's Hospital in Boston and went on to play sports at Framingham North High School. Caplan has stated that this life-threatening illness was a formative experience that influenced his later commitment to philosophy and bioethics.
Caplan did his undergraduate work at Brandeis University, where he majored in philosophy. There he met his future wife Jane. Their son, Zachary, was born in 1984. Caplan’s second wife, Meg Brennan Caplan, is the director of the Veterans Administration's Hudson Valley Health Care System.
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