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Biography
Jacob M. Appel is a professional bioethicist by training and holds a law degree from Harvard University and a medical degree from Columbia’s College of Physicians and surgeons. He contributes to such publications as the Journal of Clinical Ethics, the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, the Hastings Center Report, and the Bulletin of the History of Medicine.
Recent Publications:
"The Girl-Wife and the Alienists: The Forgotten Murder Trial of Josephine Terranova," Western New England Law Review, 2003.
A Duty to Kill? A Duty to Die? Rethinking the Euthanasia Controversy of 1906, The Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 2004.
A Suicide Right for the Mentally Ill? A Swiss Case Opens a New Debate, Hastings Center Report, 2007.
"Physicians are not Bootleggers": The Short, Peculiar Life of the Medicinal Alcohol Movement, The Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 2008.
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