May, Thomas 1964-

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MAY, Thomas 1964-

PERSONAL: Born December 14, 1964, in Zanesville, OH; son of Jerrold Lee and Carol Ann (Arnold) May. Education: Otterbein College, B.A., 1988; Bowling Green State University, M.A., 1990, Ph.D., 1994.


ADDRESSES: Offıce—Center for the Study of Bioethics, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Rd., Milwaukee, WI 53226-0509; fax: 414-456-6511. E-mail—[email protected].


CAREER: University of Liverpool, Liverpool, England, visiting lecturer in philosophy, 1992; University of Minnesota, postdoctoral fellow at Center for Biomedical Ethics and adjunct member of philosophy faculty, 1994-95; Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, fellow in bioethics, 1995-96; Southern Illinois University, adjunct assistant professor, 1996-97, adjunct associate professor of medical humanities, 1997-2001, ethics educator at Clinical Ethics Center of Memorial Medical Center, 1996-97, director of Clinical Ethics Center, 1997-2001; Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, associate professor of bioethics and director of graduate program, 2000—. University of Illinois—Chicago Circle, teaching scholar in research ethics, 1999-2001; University of South Florida, ethicist in residence, 2002; lecturer at other institutions, including Case Western Reserve University, University of Pittsburgh, University of South Carolina, Georgia State University, and Central Missouri State University; conference organizer; guest on media programs. Illinois Department on Aging, member of task force to create a code of ethics for nursing home advocacy volunteers, 1998-99; Spring-field Committee on Research Involving Human Subjects, member, 2000; Advance Care Planning Clinic, creator.


MEMBER: American Philosophical Association, American Public Health Association (chair of Ethics Forum, 2002-04), Association for Politics and the Life Sciences (program chair for Bioterrorism Section, 2003).

AWARDS, HONORS: Scholar, National Institutes of Health, 1999-2001.


WRITINGS:

(Editor) Philosophy Books, 1982-1986, Philosophy Documentation Center (Charlottesville, VA), 1990.

Autonomy, Authority, and Moral Responsibility, Kluwer Academic Publishers (Hingham, MA), 1998.

(Editor, with P. Tudico, and contributor) AdvanceDirectives and Surrogate Decision-Making in Illinois, Human Services Press (New York, NY), 1999.

Bioethics in a Liberal Society: The Political Framework of Bioethics Decision-Making, Johns Hopkins University Press (Baltimore, MD), 2002.


Contributor to books, including Advances in Bioethics: Values, Ethics, and Alcoholism, edited by Rem Edwards and Wayne Shelton, JAI Press (Greenwich, CT), 1997; Ethics for the Professions, edited by John Rowan and Samuel Zinaich, Wadsworth Publishing (Belmont, CA), 2003; The Inner Citadel and Beyond: New Essays on Personal Autonomy and Its Role in Contemporary Philosophy, edited by James Taylor, Oxford University Press (New York, NY); and Children, Medicine, and the Law, edited by Michael Freeman, Ashgate Publishing (Burlington, VT), 2003. Contributor of articles and reviews to academic journals, including Law and Philosophy, American Philosophical Quarterly, Generations, International Journal of Clinical Ethics, Social Theory and Practice, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, Vaccine, and Human Rights. Guest coeditor, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 2001.

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