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Send email to:
Alan Meisel, JD
(Health Law)
Director, Center for Bioethics and Health
Law
Dickie, McCamey & Chilcote Professor of Bioethics, and Professor of Law
and Psychiatry
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Professor Meisel is an authority on legal aspects of
decision-making in the physician-patient relationship. His work has focused
on both the theory and the practice of informed consent and the right to
refuse medical treatment. His most recent book, The Right to Die: The
Law of End-of-Life Decisionmaking, is now in its third edition. The first edition won the
1989 American Association of Publishers' award for the best book in its
category. His other books include Informed Consent: Legal Theory and
Clinical Practice (with Appelbaum and Lidz) and Informed Consent: A Study of Decisionmaking in Psychiatry (with Lidz, Roth, et al.). He was assistant director for
legal studies on the President's Commission for the Study of Ethical
Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research and
participated in the writing of the Commission's reports on informed consent
and forgoing life-sustaining treatment. He also served on the Ethics
Working Group of the White House Task Force on Health Care Reform in 1993.
Professor Meisel is a fellow of the Hastings
Center and a member of the
editorial boards of Bioethics Books, the Journal of Clinical
Ethics, the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, and Law,
Medicine and Ethics. He teaches courses in bioethics and law, genetics
and law, health law, and death and dying in the School
of Law, and he teaches in the
medical ethics courses in the School
of Medicine.
Prof.
Meisel's Home Page at the School of Law
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