Mary Ruwart
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Dr. Mary Ruwart |
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Ruwart in 2008
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| Born |
October 16, 1949 Detroit, Michigan |
| Occupation | author, activist |
| Education | PhD |
| Alma mater | Michigan State University |
| Notable works | Healing Our World in an Age of Aggression |
Mary J. Ruwart, PhD (born October 16, 1949) is a retired biomedical researcher and libertarian speaker, writer, and activist. She was a leading candidate for the 2008 Libertarian Party presidential nomination and is the author of the award-winning Healing Our World.
Born in Detroit, Ruwart holds a Bachelor of Science with a major in biochemistry (1970), and a doctorate in biophysics (1974) from Michigan State University. After a 2½ year term on the faculty of the Department of Surgery at St. Louis University Medical School, Ruwart spent 19 years as a pharmaceutical research scientist for Upjohn Pharmaceuticals, and has written extensively on the subjects of government regulation of the drug industry and on libertarian communication.
In 1992, Ruwart published her book Healing Our World: The Other Piece of the Puzzle (); in 2003, the third edition was published, retitled Healing Our World in an Age of Aggression (). In the afterword of the third edition of Healing Our World, Ruwart describes the experience of her sister's death, an assisted suicide facilitated by Jack Kevorkian. The fourth edition, Healing Our World: The Compassion of Libertarianism () was released in 2015.
A member of the Libertarian Party, Ruwart campaigned unsuccessfully for the party's presidential nomination in 1984 and for the vice-presidential nomination in 1992. Ruwart was the Libertarian Party of Texas's nominee for U.S. Senate in 2000, where she faced incumbent Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison; Ruwart polled 1.16% of the popular vote (72,798 votes), finishing fourth of four candidates behind Green Party candidate Douglas Sandage.
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