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Ezekiel Emanuel
Bioethicist, National Institutes of Health
"I’m a practicing atheist." Read More
"One of the great things is I get to meet people who I would not otherwise meet." Read More
$100 billion may not be enough money. Read More
The bioethicist on education and health care. Read More
The "Big Man Syndrome" isn't a result of colonialism, Emanuel says. Read More
It will take us another forty years to get over the Iraq syndrome. Read More
We're no longer dealing with bows and arrows, Emanuel says. Read More
The technology exists; the political will does not. Read More
Today's American has 10 times as much material resources as the American of the Civil War. Read More
Leave behind something that's worth the the resources you have consumed. Read More
For better or for worse, the media is a filter for understanding medicine. Read More
Hear from Rahm's brother, Obama's new healthcare policy adviser Ezekiel Emanuel. Read More
Getting to know the city from the back of a delivery wagon. Read More
If you can afford it, be energy conscious. Read More
Most of us don't think our obituary ought to start, "He died with seven billion dollars." Read More
If we let researchers go wild, we would solve a lot of our problems. Read More
Emanuel proves you can be an optimist and a pessimist at once. Read More
Science has improved our standard of living, as well as our capacity to kill. Read More
Emanuel is a synagogue-going atheist. Read More
Training the next generation. Read More
About Ezekiel Emanuel
Ezekiel Emanuel is the Chair of the Department of Bioethics at the Warren G. Magnuson Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Emanuel is a well-known authority on the ethics of clinical research, end of life care issues, euthanasia and the ethics of managed care.
He has published in the New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancent, JAMA, and many other medical journals. His book The Ends of Human Life: Medical Ethics in a Liberal Polity received an honorable mention for the Rosenhaupt Memorial Book Award by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. Dr. Emanuel was educated at Amherst College, Oxford University and Harvard University, from which he holds both an MD and PhD in political philosophy. He also served on the ethics section of President Clinton's Health Care Task Force, on the National Bioethics Advisory Committee, and on the bioethics panel of the Pan American Health Organization.