Daniel Brock

Dan W. Brock (December 1937 – September 26, 2020) was an American philosopher and bioethicist. He was the Frances Glessner Lee Professor Emeritus of Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School and Professor Emeritus at Brown University. Brock earned a B.A. from Cornell University and a Ph.D. from Columbia University. He taught philosophy at Brown University and held positions 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. He also served as a Fellow and received the Henry Knowles Beecher Award from the Hastings Center. Brock published extensively on bioethics and health policy and consulted for international organizations like the World Health Organization. He was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities in 2018.