William J. Winslade

William J. Winslade (born November 18, 1941) is an American professor of philosophy of medicine and law. He holds positions as the James Wade Rockwell Professor of Philosophy of Medicine at the Institute for Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law and associate director for Graduate Programs, Health Law & Policy Institute at the University of Houston Law Center. He is also a fellow of the Hastings Center, a bioethics research institution. Winslade has published extensively on policy issues related to traumatic brain injury and has proposed banning boxing. He was born in Denver, Colorado, and earned degrees in Philosophy (BA, PhD), Law (JD), and Psychoanalysis (PhD) from Monmouth College, Northwestern University, UCLA School of Law, and the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute, respectively. He is admitted to the California State Bar. His research has been funded by grants from organizations like the National Institutes of Health and The Greenwall Foundation, focusing on ethics in research involving prisoners. He has also been a fellow at the Zentrum fur interdisziplinare Forschung in Germany. Winslade's publications cover a wide range of topics including children's health and law, psychiatry, patient rights, prison health, planned death, clinical ethics, and geriatrics.