Norman Daniels

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Norman Daniels
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Norman Daniels at 5-22-2017 HCSPH Retirement Symposium
Born1942 (age 8283)
New York
NationalityAmerican
Known forA theory of justice which includes health possibilities and healthcare ethics
AwardsInvestigator Award in Health Policy Research, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation [1]
Scientific career
Fields Global health, population health, health ethics, philosophy, ethics
Institutions Tufts University, Tufts University School of Medicine, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University
Norman Daniels at retirement party - 5-22-2017.jpg

Norman Daniels (born 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. [2] 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. He also developed the concept of accountability for reasonableness with James Sabin, [3] an ethics framework used to challenge the healthcare resource allocation in the 1990s. [4]

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Teaching positions

Until his retirement at the end of June 2017, Daniels was Mary B. Saltonstall Professor of Population Ethics and Professor of Ethics and Population Health [5] 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. [6] [7] 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). [8]

Education

Personal life

Daniels is married to neuro-psychologist Anne Lacy Daniels (Ed.D.). [10] They have one son, Noah M. Daniels (Ph.D), currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Statistics of The University of Rhode Island. [11]

With Jared Israel, Daniels co-chaired the Harvard chapter of the Students for a Democratic Society in 1969. [12] [13] [14]

In a public letter to his fraternity brothers at Wesleyan, Daniels wrote: "At Harvard, I ended up co-chair of SDS and gave the speech on the steps of University Hall April 9, 1969, that began the take-over of that administration building and thus led to the Harvard Strike. I would have been fired as a teaching fellow, so I followed my advisors advice and quit that position to take a part-time job at Tufts, teaching philosophy of science and political philosophy. I stayed 33 years." [7]

Professional affiliations

Consulting

Awards

Fellowships and grants

Investigator Award in Health Policy Research, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 1997 (for the period 1998-2001)
"Limit-Setting in Managed Care and Other Health Delivery Systems: Legitimacy, Fair Process, and the Goals of Health Care Reform" [1]

Books

[Source: Bibliography of books, from personal webpage, which also includes peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters published since 1965]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Award page for RWJF Investigator Award in Health Policy Research". Archived from the original on 2016-11-12. Retrieved 2014-09-22.
  2. HSPH faculty profile
  3. Harvard Catalyst profile for James Evan Sabin, MD, of Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare and HMS Population Medicine Department, who also wrote about psychiatric ethics
  4. Hasman, Andreas; Holm, Søren (2005-12-01). "Accountability for Reasonableness: Opening the Black Box of Process" . Health Care Analysis. 13 (4): 261–273. doi:10.1007/s10728-005-8124-2. ISSN   1573-3394.
  5. Norman Daniels, Faculty Directory, Department of Global Health and Population
  6. Justice, Health, and Healthcare, an article on political and social justice vis a vis access to healthcare, while Norman Daniels taught at Tufts
  7. 1 2 Bios_63-64 htm
  8. Faculty Associates of the Edward J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard, noting some of the topical areas which Dr. Daniels researches
  9. Biosketch: Norman Daniels, personal homepage
  10. Health Providers Data for Anne Lacy Daniels, EdD
  11. URI CS profile for Noah M. Daniels, PhD
  12. Robert M. Smith (May 2, 1969). "169 Fined in Harvard Sit-In; 2 Cleared at Cambridge". The New York Times . Retrieved February 9, 2009.
  13. "70 Youths Ejected In Protest on Draft At House Building". The New York Times . May 9, 1967. Retrieved February 9, 2009.
  14. Alexander Reid (April 9, 1989). "Harvard, Ex-Radicals Remember Many Talk of Feelings 20 Years After Protest". The Boston Globe. Archived from the original on October 23, 2012. Retrieved February 9, 2009.