Norman Daniels | |
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Born | 1942 New York |
Residence | Massachusetts, USA |
Citizenship | USA |
Nationality | American (USA) |
Fields | global health, population health, health ethics, philosophy, ethics |
Institutions | Tufts University, Tufts University School of Medicine, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University |
Known for | political philosophy; a theory of justice which includes health possibilities and healthcare ethics; moral epistemology; allocation of resources; public goods |
Notable awards | Investigator Award in Health Policy Research, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation |
Norman Daniels, born in 1942, is an American political philosopher and philosopher of science, political theorist, ethicist, and bioethicist at Harvard University and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Before his career at Harvard, Daniels had built his career as a medical ethicist at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts and at Tufts University School of Medicine, also in Boston.
Until his retirement at the end of June 2016, Daniels had been Mary B. Saltonstall Professor of Population Ethics and Professor of Ethics and Population Health in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston.
Previously, and for 33 years, he had taught political philosophy at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. At Tufts University, he had been Goldthwaite Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department, and at Tufts University School of Medicine, he was Professor of Medical Ethics (1969–2002).
Daniels is married to neuro-psychologist Anne Lacy Daniels (Ed.D.). They have one son, Noah M. Daniels, formerly a postdoctoral research associate at MIT, is now Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Statistics of The University of Rhode Island.