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II, George Patrick Smith, was born on September 1, 1939 in Wabash, Indiana, United States. Son of George Patrick and Marie Louise (Barrett) S.
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'George P. Smith is one of the world's leading experts on the legal and ethical issues raised by modern medicine. His book is a wide-ranging and deeply informed and considered analysis of those issues, with particular emphasis on the inequality with which the benefits of modern medicine are bestowed on the sick. Knowledgeable as well about the technical aspects of the biomedical revolution, Smith writes with insight and authority, and offers a perspective that will influence the policy debates.' - Richard A. Posner, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and University of Chicago Law School, US 'Professor George P. Smith's Distributive Justice and the New Medicine is a major new work by one of the world's leading medical lawyers. This book brings important new insights into the complex area of rationing health care resources and should be read by anyone interested in seeking to create a just society.' - Jonathan Herring, Exeter College, University of Oxford, UK Is the advancement of scientific knowledge and the development of biomedical technologies - known as the 'New Medicine' - desirable? George P. Smith asks this fundamental question while also confronting the distribution of these scarce medical resources. Law, economics, medical science, philosophy and ethics all coalesce in this discussion of how to structure normative standards of conduct that will improve the quality of human life. The author begins by examining various economic constructs as aids for achieving a fair and equitable delivery of health care services. He then assesses their level of practical application and evaluates the costs and benefits to society of pursuing the development and use of the 'New Medicine'. The book ends with a case study of organ and tissue transplantation that illustrates the implementation of distributive justice. The author concludes that as long as clinical medicine maintains its focus on healing and alleviating suffering among patients, a point of equilibrium will be reached that advances the common good. This timely and compelling exploration will be a must-read for scholars, researchers, policymakers and all those interested in advances in medical technology and the issues surrounding access to health care.
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II, George Patrick Smith, was born on September 1, 1939 in Wabash, Indiana, United States. Son of George Patrick and Marie Louise (Barrett) S.
Bachelor of Science, Indiana University, 1961. Juris Doctor, Indiana University, 1964. Certificate, Hague Academy International Law, 1965.
Master of Laws, Columbia University, 1975. Doctor of Laws, Indiana University, 1998.
Kannert teaching fellow, Indiana U. School Law, 1964-1965;
instructor law, University of Michigan School Law, 1965-1966;
practiced in, Indiana and Washington., since 1965;
legal adviser, Foreign Claims Settlement Commission, Department State, Washington, 1966;
assistant professor, assistant dean, State University New York at Buffalo Law School, 1967-1969;
visiting assistant professor of law, George Washington University, National Law Center, summer 1968;
associate professor of law, University Arkansas, 1969-1971;
special counsel, Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, 1971-1974;
Adjunct Professor law, Catholic U. Law School, Washington, 1973-1974;
professor, Catholic U. Law School, Washington, since 1977. Adjunct Professor law Georgetown University Law Center, 1971-1975. Associate professor of law U. Pittsburgh School Law, 1975-1978.
Commonwealth fellow in law, science and medicine Yale University, New Haven, 1976-1977. Visiting professor law U. Connecticut, 1977. Distinguished visiting scholar Kennedy Bioethics Institute, Georgetown University, 1977-1981.
Visiting scholar Cambridge (England) University, summer 1975, spring 1978-1979, Hoover Institute on War, Revolution and Peace Stanford (California) U., summer 1983, Institute Society, Ethics and Life Sciences, Hastings Center, New York, 1981, Lilly RareBooks Library., Indiana U., July 1981, The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction, U. Indiana, July 1981, American Bar Foundation, Chicago, 1986, 87, Vatican Library., Rome, July, 1989. Rockefeller Foundation residential scholar, Bellagio, Italy, 1980. Lecturer School Medicine, Uniformed Superior vena cava syndrome U. Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland., 1979-1987.
Consultant environmental legislation Government of Greece, 1977. Special counsel to Governor Arkansas for environmental affairs,1969-1971. Consultant Arkansas Planning Commission, 1970-1971.
Member Arkansas Waterway Commission, 1970-1971. Chairman Arkansas Committee on Environmental Control, 1970-1971. Member com.on highway research National Research Council, NAS, 1971-1981.
Life member Indiana U. Foundation. University fellow Columbia University Law School, 1974-1975. Fellow Max Planck Institute, Heidelberg, Federal Republic of Germany, summer 1983.
Member President Reagan's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control, 1982. Visiting fellow Clare Hall Cambridge U., 1983-1984, summer 87, law, science and medicine Hughes Hall, Cambridge (England) University, 1989, also visiting member of law faculty, April-August, 1989. Fulbright visiting professor U. New South Wales, Syndey, Australia, 1984, visiting professor, visiting fellow Center for Law and Technology, 1987.
Visiting fellow Institute Advanced Study, Indiana U., 1985. Visiting professor law U. Notre Dame, 1986. Visiting scholar American Bar Foundation, Chicago, 1986, 87.
Senior visiting fellow U. Singapore, 1987. Visiting fellow McGill University Center for Medicine, Ethics and Law, Montreal, 1988, Center for biomedical Ethics University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville, 1990, Center for Bioethics Monash U., Melbourne, Australia, 1990,Working Center Studies in German and International Medical Malpractice Law Free U. Berlin, 1992. Visiting research fellow Center for Advanced Study of Ethics Georgetown University, Washington, 1990-1991.
Research fellow Divinity School Yale University, New Haven, 1991. Associate Medical Institute for Law Faculty, Cleveland Clinic Center Creative Thinking in Medicine Cleveland State University, 1991. Visiting professor research U. Auckland Law Faculty, 1991, U. Sydney Law Faculty, 1991, U. Victoria Law Faculty, B.C., Canada, 1992, Trinity College, 1992, Dublin U., Ireland, 1992, Wolfson College Cambridge U., 1992, Indiana U. School Public and Environmental Affairs, 1992, Queensland U. Faculty Law, Australia, 1993.
Visiting scholar Center biomedical Ethics University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, 1991, Center for Socio-Legal Studies University of Oxford, July 1992, Princeton (New Jersey) Theological Seminary, 1993, Center Medical Ethics Pritzker School Medicine University of Chicago, 1993. Visiting fellow Center for International Malpractice Law Free U. Berlin, January 1992, King's College Center for Medical Law and Ethics U. London, June 1992. Visiting senior fellow Center for Study Aging and Human Development DukeU. Medical Center, 1994.
Visiting professor Research U. Otiago, 1994. Faculty of law, visiting fellow U. Bioethics Research Center, Dunedin, New Zealand, 1994. Visiting scholar Poynter Center for Study of Ethics American Institutions, Indiana U., Bloomington, 1994, law, medicine and ethics Schools Medicine and Public Health Boston University, 1995, Center Law and Health Indiana U., Indianapolis, 1995.
Visiting fellow University of Pennsylvania School Medicine, Philadelphia, 1996, Institute Study Applied & Professional Ethics, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 1996, Cambridge (England) University Research Center International Law, 1996. Visiting scholar Vanderbilt University Divinity School, Nashville, 1996, Northwestern University Medical School, Medical Ethics & Humanities Program, Chicago, 1997, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, 1997, School Medicine U. Washington, 1997. Visiting professor Indiana U. School Medicine Program Medical Ethics, Indianapolis, 1997.
Visiting professor law Indiana U. Law School, Bloomington, 1997. Parson visiting professor faculty law U. Sydney, 1998. Visiting research scholar Center Clinical Bioethics, Georgetown University Medical School, Washington, 1998-1999.
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University Arkansas delegate Pacem In Maribus Conference, Malta, 1970. Member American Bar Association (representative United Nations Conference on Human Environmental, Stockholm 1972, representative Law of Sea Conference, United Nations, New York City 1976, Switzerland 1979, consultant United Nations Educational Declaration on the Production of the Protection of the Human Genome, Paris 1995-1997), American Law Institute, Society Indiana Pioneers, American Friends of Cambridge University, Order of St. John Hospitaller, Alpha Kappa Psi, Phi Alpha Delta, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Order of Omega. Clubs: Cosmos (Washington).