Norman Daniels[President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research|] is an American political philosopher and philosopher of science, political theorist, ethicist, and bioethicist at Harvard University and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Before his career at Harvard, Daniels had built his career as a medical ethicist at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, and at Tufts University School of Medicine, also in Boston.
Teaching positions
Until his retirement at the end of June 2017, Daniels is Mary B. Saltonstall Professor of Population Ethics and Professor of Ethics and Population Health in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston. Previously, and for 33 years, he had taught political philosophy at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. At Tufts University, he had been Goldthwaite Professor and chair of the philosophy department, and at Tufts University School of Medicine, he was professor of medical ethics.
Daniels is married to neuro-psychologist Anne Lacy Daniels. They have one son, Noah M. Daniels, formerly a postdoctoral research associate at MIT, is now Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Statistics of The University of Rhode Island. With Jared Israel, Daniels co-chaired the Harvard chapter of the Students for a Democratic Society in 1969. In a public letter to his fraternity brothers at Wesleyan, Daniels wrote: "At Harvard, I ended up co-chair of SDS and gave the speech on the steps of University Hall April 9, 1969, that began the take-over of that administration building and thus led to the Harvard Strike. I would have been fired as a teaching fellow, so I followed my advisors advice and quit that position to take a part-time job at Tufts, teaching philosophy of science and political philosophy. I stayed 33 years."
Professional affiliations
Formerly Goldthwaite Professor and chair of the philosophy department at Tufts University and professor of medical ethics at Tufts Medical School, 1969–2002
Member, Public Health Service Expert Panel on Cost Effectiveness and Clinical Preventive Medicine
Member, National Academy of Social Insurance study panel on the social role of Medicare
Member, Century Fund task force on Medicare reform
Consulting
He has traveled widely and internationally, consulting with organizations, commissions, and governments in the U.S. and abroad on issues of justice and health policy
Founding Member, National Academy of Social Insurance
Founding Member, International Society for Equity in Health
Founding Member, National Cancer Policy Board, established by the Institute of Medicine and the Commission on the Life Sciences
Founding Member, Advisory Board of the Open Society Foundation project on Medicine as a Profession, and on the International Bioethics Advisory Board of PAHO. He served recently on an IOM Committee on the use of Cost Effectiveness Analysis in regulatory contexts.
[Source: [http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/benchmark/ndaniels/publications.html Bibliography of books, from personal webpage, which also includes peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters published since 1965
