Dan W. Brock

Dan W. Brock was an American philosopher and bioethicist. He was born in December 1937 and died on September 26, 2020, at the age of 82 in Boston, Massachusetts. He held the Frances Glessner Lee Professor Emeritus of Medical Ethics position at Harvard Medical School and was also a professor emeritus at Brown University. Brock was the former Director of the Division of Medical Ethics and the Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health. He earned a B.A. in economics from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University. His career included teaching philosophy at Brown University and serving in the Department of Clinical Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health. He was president of the American Association of Bioethics and a founding board member of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. Brock was also a Fellow of the Hastings Center, receiving their lifetime achievement award. In 2018, he was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. He published over 150 articles and co-authored six books on bioethics and philosophy. He consulted for international organizations like the World Health Organization and was an editorial board member for numerous journals. His work significantly contributed to the fields of bioethics and health policy.