Margaret Battin | |
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Nationality | American |
Other names | Peggy Battin M. Pabst Battin |
Citizenship | USA |
Alma mater | Bryn Mawr College 1963, BA University of California, Irvine (1973, MFA 1976, PhD) |
Known for | Assisted suicide research |
Children | Michael Wood Battin Sara Battin Pearson |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Philosophy, ethics |
Institutions | University of Utah |
Thesis | Plato on Truth and Truthlessness in Poetry (1976) |
Margaret Pabst Battin, also known as Peggy Battin, is an American philosopher, medical ethicist, author, and a current distinguished professor at the University of Utah. She is a supporter of assisted suicide and has worked extensively on ethical aspects of this issue. In 1993, she was named a Spinoza Chair at the University of Amsterdam for her studies on assisted suicide. Battin is a Hastings Center Fellow. In 2008, Battin's husband became quadriplegic after a bicycle accident, which caused her to refine and augment her thinking about assisted suicide; he died in 2013 after he requested to turn off his life support.[citation needed]
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