The American Society for Bioethics and Humanities promotes the exchange of ideas and fosters multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and inter-professional scholarship, research, teaching, policy development, professional development, and collegiality among people engaged in clinical and academic bioethics and the medical humanities.

 

 

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ASBH Awards

Lifetime Achievement Award:  Recognizes outstanding contributions and significant publications that have helped shape the direction of the fields of bioethics and the medical humanities. The recipient agrees to make a major presentation at the ASBH Annual Meeting.

2009 Lifetime Achievement Award
Howard Brody, MD PhD

Howard Brody, MD PhDHoward Brody received his M.D. Degree from the College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University in 1976, and his Ph.D. in Philosophy, also from Michigan State University, in 1977.  After completing his residency in family practice at the University of Virginia Medical Center, Charlottesville, he returned to Michigan State University, where he served as University Distinguished Professor of Family Practice, Philosophy, and the Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences. He was Director of the Center for Ethics and Humanities from 1985 to 2000. In 2006, Dr. Brody moved to the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, to become the Director of the Institute for the Medical Humanities and John P. McGovern Centennial Chair in Family Medicine.

Dr. Brody's most recent book is The Future of Bioethics (Oxford University Press, in press). He is also author of Hooked: Ethics, the Medical Profession, and the Pharmaceutical Industry (Rowman and Littlefield, 2007), The Healer's Power (Yale University Press, 1992), Stories of Sickness (Yale University Press, 1987; second edition, Oxford University Press, 2003), Ethical Decisions in Medicine (Little Brown, second edition 1981), and Placebos and the Philosophy of Medicine (University of Chicago Press, 1980), Dr. Brody has also written more than 100 articles on medical ethics, family medicine, and philosophy of medicine.  He is also a co-author (with Peter Vinten-Johansen, Nigel Paneth, Stephen Rachman, and Michael Rip) of Cholera, Chloroform, and the Science of Medicine: A Life of John Snow (Oxford University Press, 2003). In collaboration with his wife Daralyn, Dr. Brody wrote The Placebo Response: How You Can Release the Body's Inner Pharmacy for Better Health, published by HarperCollins in 2000. Another book on the history of medical ethics, Michael Ryan's Writings on Medical Ethics (co-edited with Zahra Meghani and Kimberly Greenwald) is in press. His work has been translated into six languages.

Dr. Brody was elected President of the Society for Health and Human Values in 1988-89.  In 1993-94, Dr. Brody served as Senior Scholar in Residency for the American Academy of Family Physicians at the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research in Rockville, MD; he also chaired the Michigan Commission on Death and Dying.  In 1995, he was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.

Originally a native of Chicago, Dr. Brody resides in Galveston, Texas. He and Daralyn have two children, Sheila and Mark. A portion of the time not devoted to the above activities is spent on the Sherlock Holmes saga and occasionally contributing articles to the Baker Street Journal.


Distinguished Service Award:  Recognizes outstanding and dedicated service to ASBH. The award is presented to an individual who has advanced the mission of ASBH in a significant and lasting way.

ASBH is pleased to present the 2009 Distinguished Service Award to Mark Aulisio, PhD, Bob Pearlman, MD MPH, and Sue Rubin, PhD.

Cornerstone Award:  Recognizes outstanding contributions by an institution that has helped shape the direction of the fields of bioethics and/or the medical humanities. Qualifying institutions are more than 30 years old. The Cornerstone Award is not an annual award and is awarded at the discretion of the ASBH Board of Directors.

ASBH is pleased to present the 2009 Cornerstone Award to The Hastings Center.

Award Recipients

Lifetime Achievement Award  

2009 - Howard Brody, MD PhD
2008 - Robert M Veatch, PhD
2007 - Renée C Fox, PhD 
2006 - Ronald E Cranford, MD and Bernard Gert, PhD
2005 - Eric Cassell, MD MACP
2004 - Tom L Beauchamp, PhD, James F Childress, PhD and Joanne Trautmann Banks, PhD
2003 - Jay Katz, PhD
2002 - Ruth Macklin, PhD
2001 - Daniel Callahan, PhD
2000 - John C Fletcher, PhD
1999 - Albert R Jonsen, PhD
1998 - Edmund D Pellegrino, MD 

Distinguished Service Award

2009 - Mark Aulisio, PhD, Bob Pearlman, MD MPH, and Sue Rubin, PhD
2008 - Arthur R Derse, MD JD
2007 - Alex John London, PhD and Laurie S Zoloth, PhD 
2006 - Mark H Waymack, PhD
2005 - Chester R Burns, MD PhD
2004 - Thomas H Murray, PhD
2003 - Mark G Kuczewski, PhD and Hilde Lindemann Nelson, PhD
2002 - Betty Wolder Levin, PhD and Leslie S Rothenberg
2001 - David Barnard, PhD, Marian Gray Secundy, PhD, and Tom Tomlinson, PhD
2000 - Robert M Arnold, MD, Steven H Miles, MD and Stuart J Youngner, MD
1999 - Loretta M Kopelman, PhD

Cornerstone Award

2009 - The Hastings Center

Student Paper Award

2009 - Kelly Heuer
2008 - Anne Lincoln
2007 - Mike Collins
2006 - Michelle D Roth-Cline  
2003 - Winston Chiong
2002 - Beth Linker
2001 - Ryan B Spellecy
2000 - Andrea Scarantino

 

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