MARGARET P BATTIN portrait
  • Adjunct Professor, Internal Medicine
  • Distinguished Professor, Philosophy
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Professional Service

  • International Conference on End of Life and the Law. Role: co-organizer. Organizing Committee. 06/2023 - 04/2024
  • American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division. Role: Member. Program Committee. 09/2015 - 04/2018
  • University of Portland. Tenure review. 11/01/2014 - 11/27/2014
  • National Endowment for the Humanities. Role: Reviewer. Philosophy, Religion, and History of Science Collaborative Research Panel. 03/18/2014 - 03/18/2014

Internal Service

  • Distinguished Professor Selection Committee. Member, 06/2023 - 06/2024. University service.
  • Medical Humanities Major Development Committee. Member, 06/2023 - 06/2024. Department service.

Honors & Awards

  • Gardner Prize. Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, 04/07/2017
  • Honorable Mention, PROSE Award (American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence), Category Philosophy, for The Ethics of Suicide: Historical Sources (Oxford Univ. Press, 2015) . Association of American Publishers, 02/2016
  • University Professorship. University of Utah, 06/2007
  • Distinguished Honors Professorship. University of Utah, 06/2002
  • Rosenblatt Prize. University of Utah, 06/2000
  • Distinguished Research Award. University of Utah, 06/1997
  • Spinoza Chair. University of Amsterdam Academic Medical Center, 03/1993
  • First Prize for Book-length Collection of Short Stories. Utah Arts Council, 01/1981
  • Fellowship for Independent Study and Research. National Endowment for the Humanities , 07/1977

Affiliations

  • The Ethox Center, Dept. Public Health, Oxford Univ. , Fellow, 01/2010 - present
  • European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care (ESPMH), Board, 2008-, 01/2008 - present
  • The Hastings Center , Fellow, 01/2008 - present
  • International Association for Suicide Research (IASR), Ethics Committee, 01/2002 - present
  • International Association for Bioethics (IAB), Board, 1997-2005, 01/1997 - present
  • American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH), Board 93-96, 01/1993 - present
  • American Association of Suicidology (AAS), Board of Directors; Chair Ethics Committee 92-95, 01/1979 - present
  • American Philosophical Association (APA), Pacific Division Program Chair, 87 and Exec Cte. 94-97. Cte. Phil. and Medicine; Cte. Intl Cooperat, 01/1975 - present
  • American Society for Aesthetics (ASA), President, Pacific Division, 85-86, 01/1975 - present

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