Samuel Gorovitz

Professor of Philosophy
Founding Director, Renée Crown University Honors Program
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1963

Samuel Gorovitz, former dean of Arts and Sciences, led in the development of the field of medical ethics. He has also published extensively on other topics in philosophy and public policy. His advice on college governance and on health policy has been widely sought, and he has given more than 200 invited lectures in many countries in five continents. He led an NEH summer seminar for college teachers in 1984, an NIH regional workshop on research with human subjects in 1989, and several other summer seminars and institutes. He has been a consultant to PBS, the World Health Organization, and many federal agencies. Prof. Gorovitz has often been interviewed on programs such as All Things Considered, the Larry King Show, the Studs Terkel Show, and has been quoted in magazines ranging from Ladies Home Journal to The New Yorker. His publications include more than 130 articles, reviews and editorials in philosophical journals, medical journals, public policy journals, and newspapers. He is a co-author of Philosophical Analysis (Random House, 1964, 1969, 1979), an editor of several anthologies, and author of Doctors' Dilemmas: Moral Conflict and Medical Care (Oxford, 1985) and Drawing the Line: Life, Death, and Ethical Choices in an American Hospital (Oxford, 1991; Temple 1993). Prof. Gorovitz received his B.S. from MIT in 1960 and his Ph.D. from Stanford in 1963. In fall 1996, he served as the Baker-Hostetler Professor of Law at Cleveland Marshall College of Law, and in fall 1998 was Visiting Scholar in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University. Since 1988 he has served, by gubernatorial appointment, on the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law. He was Dearing-Daly Professor of Bioethics and Humanities at the SUNY Upstate Medical University from 2001-2004. He is Founding Director of the Renée Crown University Honors Program at Syracuse, and for 2004-05 was Visiting Professor of Philosophy and Bioethicist in Residence at Yale. In 2007 he was appointed by New York's governor to the new Empire State Stem Cell Board, which oversees a $600 million commitment to stem cell research in New York State.

Professor Gorovitz's office is located in 430 Hall of Languages, office number is 315-443-9331. He also has an office in 306E Bowne Hall, office number 315-443-3952.
Prof. Gorovitz's e-mail address: sgcas at syr dot edu

Professor Gorovitz's curriculum vitae

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