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Jacob M. Appel
American author, bioethicist, physician, lawyer and social critic
Appel was born in the Bronx to Gerald B. Appel and Alice Appel and raised in Scarsdale, New York,[6] and Branford, Connecticut.[7] His family is Jewish.[8] He completed his Bachelor of Arts at Brown University with double majors in English and American literature and in history (1995).[9] He has seven master's degrees from:
Brown University (Master of Arts in European history, 1996)[10]
Columbia University (Master of Arts in American history, 1998, and Master of Philosophy in American history, 2000)[11]
New York University (Master of Fine Arts in creative writing with a focus in fiction, 2000)[12][13][14][15]
Albany Medical College, constituent of the Union University of New York (Master of Science in bioethics, 2012)
Queens College of the City University of New York (Master of Fine Arts in playwriting, 2013)[16]
His debut novel The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up won the 2012 Dundee International Book Prize and was published by Cargo in October 2012.[52][53] It was described as "A darkly comic satire, full of insight into American culture" by Stephen Fry and "engaging, funny, ingenious, even charming" by Philip Pullman.[54] His book subsequently won The International Rubery Book Award in 2013.
Appel has taught creative writing at the Gotham Writers' Workshop and New York University.[57] He served as writer-in-residence at Yeshiva College in 2013.[58]
Appel is an advocate for the decriminalization of assisted suicide,[75] raising the possibility that this might be made available to both the terminally ill and those with intractable, long-term mental illness.[76][77] He has also defended the Groningen Protocol.[78] He has written in favor of abortion rights and fertility treatment for homosexuals, as well as against electronic medical records, which he sees as poorly secured against hacking.[79] He has also argued in favor of the legalization of prostitution, polygamy and incest between consenting adults.[80] He has raised concerns regarding the possibility that employers will require their employees to use pharmaceuticals for cognitive enhancement and has urged that death row inmates be eligible to receive kidney transplants.[81][82] He generated considerable controversy for endorsing the mandatory use of preimplantation genetic diagnosis as part of the in vitro fertilization process to prevent the implantation of embryos carrying severe genetic defects. Appel has also written in support of an "open border" immigration policy. Among the causes that Appel has embraced is opposition to the forcible feeding of hunger strikers, both in domestic prisons and at Guantanamo Bay.[83][84] He has written that exposure to literature should be a medical school admissions requirement.[85]
Appel writes for both The Huffington Post and Opposing Views. He has staked out a libertarian position on many bioethical issues, advocating a worldview that he describes as "a culture of liberty."[95] He has written opinion pieces in The New York Times, New York Daily News, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Orlando Sentinel, Albany Times-Union, Tucson Citizen, Detroit Free Press, New Haven Register, Baltimore Sun and The Providence Journal.[96][97][98][99][100][101][102][103]The Best American Essays series named his nonfiction pieces as "notable essays" in the years 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015 and 2017, and received "special mention" from the Pushcart Prize in 2012 and 2017.[104][105][106][107][48][108]
^Appel, JM. Organ Solicitation on the Internet: Every Man for Himself?, Hastings Center Report, 2005
^Appel, JM. May Doctors Refuse Infertility Treatments to Gay Patients? Hastings Center Report, Volume 36, Number 4, July-August 2006, pp. 20-21
^A Appel, JM. Suicide Right for the Mentally Ill?: A Swiss Case Opens a New Debate, Hastings Center Report, 2007
^Appel, JM. Smoke and Mirrors: One Case for Ethical Obligations of the Physician as Public Role Model, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics (2009), 18: 95-100 Cambridge University Press
^Appel, JM. "Physicians are not Bootleggers": The Short, Peculiar Life of the Medicinal Alcohol Movement, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Volume 82, Number 2, Summer 2008, pp. 355-386
^Appel, JM. A duty to kill? A duty to die? Rethinking the euthanasia controversy of 1906, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 2004
^Appel, JM. English high court orders separation of conjoined twins, The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 2000
^Appel, JM. Research Guidelines: Changes UrgedJM Appel - The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 2001
^Appel, JM. Is all fair in biological warfare? The controversy over genetically engineered biological weapons, Journal of Medical Ethics, 2009
^Appel, JM. Sex rights for the disabled? J Med Ethics 2010;36:152-154
^Appel, JM. Mixed motives, mixed outcomes when accused parents won't agree to withdraw care, Journal of Medical Ethics 2009;35:635-637
^Appel, JM. Defining death: when physicians and families differ[PDF] Journal of Medical Ethics, 2005
^Appel, JM. Neonatal Euthanasia: Why Require Parental Consent?, Journal of Bioethical Inquiry Volume 6, Number 4, 477-482
^Appel, JM. "The Monster's Law: A History of Chimera Research," Volume 19, Number 2. March-April 2006
^J M Appel When the boss turns pusher: a proposal for employee protections in the age of cosmetic neurology J Med Ethics 2008; 34: 616-618
^Appel, JM. "Wanted Dead or Alive? Kidney Transplantation in Inmates Awaiting Execution," The Journal of Clinical Ethics. Volume 16, Number 1. Spring 2005. PMID15915846
^Appel, Jacob. Harsh Treatment at Guantánamo, The New York Times, April 21, 2013
^Appel, Jacob. "Rethinking Force-Feeding: Legal and Ethical Aspects of Physician Participation in the Termination of Hunger Strikes in American Prisons," Public Affairs Quarterly. Volume 26 o Number 4 October 2012
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