Peter Clark

Saint Joseph's University United States of America

Peter Clark, SJ, Ph.D., is the John McShain Chair in Ethics and Director of the Institute of Clinical Bioethics at Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, USA. He is also the bioethicist for the Jefferson Health System, St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children and Shriners Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, USA, Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Mercy Hospital, Baltimore, USA, Catholic Charites of Maryland, Community Suburban Hospital, and Caritas Baby Hospital, Bethlehem, Palestine. As a bioethicist, Dr. Clark is responsible for the ethical training of the medical fellows, residents, and interns in all the acute care hospitals. He does weekly ethics teaching rounds at the three acute care hospitals in the Jefferson Health System Northeast and Suburban Community Hospital; he co-chairs the hospital ethics committees, IRBs and the Corporate Ethics Committee and is on consult 24/7 for all the hospitals. Dr. Clark received his Ph.D. in Medical Ethics from Loyola University, Chicago, USA, and is the author of numerous articles in medical and bioethics journals on topics including medical futility, pain management, prejudice in the medical profession, the medical use of marijuana, safe injection sites, opioid prevention and education, tube feedings and PVS patients, male circumcision and HIV/AIDS, face transplantation, and the Ashley treatment, among others. He is also the author of To Treat or Not to Treat: The Ethical Methodology of Richard A. McCormick as Applied to Treatment Decisions for Handicapped Newborns and Death with Dignity: Ethical and Practical Considerations for Caregivers of the Terminally Ill. Dr. Clark is also editor of Contemporary Issues in Bioethics and Bioethics: Medical, Ethical and Legal Perspectives. Dr. Clark is also a reviewer for numerous bioethics journals and is a member of various medical and ethical organizations nationally and internationally.

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This book examines the challenges in bioethics from medical, ethical, legal, and industrial perspectives. A critical exchange of ideas from professionals in interdisciplinary fields allows all people to learn and benefit from their far-reaching insights gained through personal and professional experiences in the fields of medicine and research. Examining these complex issues, ranging from brain-computer interfaces to disabilities in health care to the determination of death to safe injection sites, presents viable paradigms for all healthcare professionals who are being confronted with these issues today and in the future. The more we face these challenges directly, examine them critically, analyze them thoroughly, and debate them enthusiastically the more knowledge will be gained and hopefully more lives will be saved.

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