Ezekiel J. Emanuel

Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel is a noted NIH bioethicist, and a leading opponent of state-assisted suicide.

Currently Emanuel is Director of the Clinical Bioethics Department at the U.S. National Institutes of Health. He graduated from Amherst College and received his MSc from Oxford University in Biochemisty. He received his MD from Harvard Medical School and a PhD in Political Philosophy from Harvard University.

He also is a brother of Hollywood-based superagent Ari Emanuel, and Democratic Representative Rahm Emanuel.

External links

• NIH Bio Page

Further Reading

• Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Victor R. Fuchs, "Vouchsafe: A new healthcare plan", The New Republic February 19, 2007
• Featured in "Whose Right to Die?", Atlantic Monthly, March 23, 2005
• David Willman, "NIH Dissident Scientists Hire Drug Industry Lawyers: Evidence of Journalistic Shilling", Los Angeles Times March 3, 2005.
• T. Zwillich, "Financial ethics pit NIH scientists against government", The Lancet, Volume 366, Issue 9485, Pages 537-538
• Bernard Wysocki Jr, "Some Scientists Say New Ethics Rules May Damage NIH", Wall Street Journal March 3, 2005

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