Ruth Macklin

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in Research & Medicine (PRIM&R), Hastings Center’s Henry Knowles Beecher Award, Global Forum on Bioethics in Research, Award for contributions to progress in international research ethics, Lifetime Achievement Award in Recognition of Outstanding Contributions and Significant Publications in Bioethics and Humanities, American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, Resident fellowship at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Study and Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy

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Ruth Macklin is an American philosopher and retired professor of bioethics.

Education

Ruth Macklin studied philosophy at Cornell University then received Ph.D. in philosophy from Case Western Reserve University.

Career

She is distinguished university professor emerita at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. She has more than 280 scholarly publications and books on HIV/AIDS, the ethics of human reproduction, the ethics of human subjects in research, health policy, public health ethics, and more. She has been adviser to the World Health Organization, chairperson of a committee at UNAIDS and at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a member of several ethical review committees, an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, co-chair of the National Advisory Board on Ethics in Reproduction, is a member of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, served as president of the International Association of Bioethics, is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of PEPFAR, and was a vice president and member of executive committee, Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS), Geneva.[http://www.princeton.edu/~bioethic/about_us/advisors/macklin.html Ruth Macklin, Ph.D.], Princeton University Macklin is a fellow of the Hastings Center, an independent bioethics research institution.[http://www.thehastingscenter.org/About/Default.aspx?id=902 The Hastings Center] Hastings Center Fellows. Accessed November 6, 2010

Selected bibliography

= Books =

{{cite book | last1 = Macklin | first1 = Ruth | last2 = Gaylin | first2 = Willard | last3 = Powledge | first3 = Tabitha M. | title = Violence and the politics of research | publisher = Plenum Press | location = New York, New York | year = 1981 | isbn = 9780306407895 }}
{{cite book | last1 = Macklin | first1 = Ruth | last2 = Gaylin | first2 = Willard | title = Mental retardation and sterilization: a problem of competency and paternalism | publisher = Plenum Press | location = New York | year = 1981 | isbn = 9780306406898 }}
{{cite book | last = Macklin | first = Ruth | title = Man, mind, and morality: the ethics of behavior control | url = https://archive.org/details/manmindmoralitye0000mack | url-access = registration | publisher = Prentice-Hall | location = Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey | year = 1982 | isbn = 9780135511275 }}
{{cite book | last1 = Macklin | first1 = Ruth | last2 = Gaylin | first2 = Willard | title = Who speaks for the child: the problems of proxy consent | publisher = Plenum Press | location = New York, New York | year = 1982 | isbn = 9780306408601 }}
{{cite book | last = Macklin | first = Ruth | title = Mortal choices: bioethics in today's world | publisher = Pantheon Books | location = New York, New York | year = 1987 | isbn = 9780394559025 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/mortalchoicesbio00mack }}
{{cite book | last = Macklin | first = Ruth | title = Mortal choices: ethical dilemmas in modern medicine | publisher = Houghton Mifflin | location = Boston, Massachusetts | year = 1988 | isbn = 9780395468470 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/mortalchoiceseth0000mack }}
{{cite book | last = Macklin | first = Ruth | title = Enemies of patients | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = New York, New York | year = 1993 | isbn = 9780195072006 }}
{{cite book | last = Macklin | first = Ruth | title = Surrogates & other mothers: the debates over assisted reproduction | url = https://archive.org/details/surrogatesotherm00ruth | url-access = registration | publisher = Temple University Press | location = Philadelphia | year = 1994 | isbn = 9781566391801 }}
{{cite book | last = Macklin | first = Ruth | title = Against relativism: cultural diversity and the search for ethical universals in medicine | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = New York, New York | year = 1999 | isbn = 9780195116328 }}
{{cite book | last = Macklin | first = Ruth | title = Double standards in medical research in developing countries | url = https://archive.org/details/doublestandardsi0000mack | url-access = registration | publisher = Cambridge University Press | location = Cambridge, UK New York, New York | year = 2004 | isbn = 9780521541701 }}
{{cite book | last1 = Macklin | first1 = Ruth | title = Intimidad, confidencialidad y protección de datos de salud: Aportaciones del IV Seminario Internacional sobre la "Declaración Universal sobre Bioética y Derechos Humanos" de la UNESCO | publisher = Civitas Thomson Reuters | location = Cizur Menor | year = 2011 | isbn = 9788447037667 |display-authors=etal}}
{{cite book | last = Macklin | first = Ruth | title = Ethics in global health: research, policy, and practice | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = New York, New York | year = 2012 | isbn = 9780199890453 }}

= Journal articles =

{{Cite journal | last = Macklin | first = Ruth | title = Liberty, utility, and justice: an ethical approach to unwanted pregnancy | journal = International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics | volume = 30 | issue = s1 | pages = 37–49 | doi = 10.1016/0020-7292(89)90102-1 | date = 1989 | s2cid = 33381263 }}
{{Cite journal | last = Macklin | first = Ruth | title = Maternal-fetal conflict: an ethical analysis | journal = Women's Health Issues | volume = 1 | issue = 1 | pages = 28–30 | doi = 10.1016/S1049-3867(05)80011-8 | date = Autumn 1990 | pmid = 2136298 | doi-access = free }}
{{Cite journal | last = Macklin | first = Ruth | title = Ethics, politics, and human embryo stem cell research | journal = Women's Health Issues | volume = 10 | issue = 3 | pages = 111–115 | doi = 10.1016/S1049-3867(00)00040-2 | date = May 2000 | pmid = 10828545 | doi-access = free }}
{{Cite journal | last = Macklin | first = Ruth | title = Dignity is a useless concept | journal = British Medical Journal | volume = 327 | issue = 7429 | pages = 1419–1420 | doi = 10.1136/bmj.327.7429.1419 | pmid = 14684633 | pmc = 300789 | date = 20 December 2003 }}
{{Cite journal | last = Macklin | first = Ruth | title = Ethics in HIV prevention research: clarifying the complexities | journal = The American Journal of Bioethics | volume = 12 | issue = 6 | pages = 31–32 | doi = 10.1080/15265161.2012.671889 | pmid = 22650458 | date = June 2012 | s2cid = 26483003 }}
{{Cite journal | last1 = Macklin | first1 = Ruth | last2 = Cowan | first2 = Ethan | title = Given financial constraints, it would be unethical to divert antiretroviral drugs from treatment to prevention | journal = Health Affairs | volume = 31 | issue = 7 | pages = 1537–1544 | doi = 10.1377/hlthaff.2012.0071 | pmid = 22778343 | date = July 2012 | pmc = 3572856 }}
{{Cite journal | last1 = Macklin | first1 = Ruth | last2 = Cowan | first2 = Ethan | title = Unconsented HIV testing in cases of occupational exposure: ethics, law, and policy | journal = Academic Emergency Medicine | volume = 19 | issue = 10 | pages = 1181–1187 | doi = 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2012.01453.x | pmid = 22994417 | date = October 2012 | pmc = 3473147 }}
{{Cite journal | last = Macklin | first = Ruth | title = Revising the declaration of Helsinki: a work in progress | journal = Indian Journal of Medical Ethics | volume = 9 | issue = 4 | pages = 224–226 | date = October 2012 | pmid = 23099591 | url = http://www.issuesinmedicalethics.org/~ijmein/index.php/ijme/article/view/24/1015 }}
{{Cite journal | last = Macklin | first = Ruth | title = A global ethics approach to vulnerability | journal = International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics| volume = 5 | issue = 2 | pages = 64–81 | doi = 10.2979/intjfemappbio.5.2.64 | date = Fall 2012 }}
{{Cite journal | last = Macklin | first = Ruth | title = Aesthetic enhancement? or human rights violation? | journal = Hastings Center Report | volume = 42 | issue = 6 | pages = 28–29 | doi = 10.1002/hast.91 | date = November 2012 | pmid = 23138368 }}
{{Cite journal | last = Macklin | first = Ruth | title = Good in theory: can it work in practice? | journal = American Journal of Bioethics | volume = 12 | issue = 12 | pages = 55–56 | doi = 10.1080/15265161.2012.739387 | pmid = 23215932 | date = December 2012 | s2cid = 205860118 }}