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Alexander M. Capron

Expert in bioethics, health care policy, access to health care, relationship between law and medicine

USC University Professor
Holder of the Henry W. Bruce Professorship in Equity
Distinguished Professor of Law and Medicine
Co-Director, Pacific Center for Health Policy and Ethics

Contact at: (213) 740-2557, (310) 452-5710 or acapron@law.usc.edu


Expertise:
  • bioethics
  • health care policy
  • genetic screening and counseling
  • ethical and legal aspects
  • medical, ethical, legal and economic issues in the care of seriously ill patients
  • definition of death
  • allocation of scarce medical resources
  • ethical and policy issues in physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia
  • cloning of human beings
  • protection of research subjects
  • relationship between law and medicine
  • patients' rights
  • reproductive technology, including surgery
  • access to health care
  • medical malpractice and liability
  • organ transplantation
  • torts
Additional Information:
  • Author, Law and the Life Sciences: Cases and Material on Legal, Social and Ethical Issues in the Assessment and Control of Biomedical Advances, 4th edition (1978)
  • Co-Author, Treatise on Healthcare Law and Law, Science and Medicine, 2nd edition (1996)
  • Co-editor of five books on ethical and public policy implications of developments in the life sciences
  • Member, Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences Member, National Bioethics Advisory Commission
  • Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American College of Legal Medicine
  • Founding Fellow, Hastings Center
  • Commissioner, Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
  • Executive Director, President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research

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