Arthur Caplan: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Academic
- Role
- founding head of the Division of Medical Ethics at New York University Grossman School of Medicine
- Quoted on
- Medical ethics & regulation, Cosmetic procedures & aesthetics
- Tracked press citations
- 4
- Most recently quoted
- 30 Sept 2026
- First quoted
- 29 Sept 2026
“Founded in 1994 by Arthur Caplan, PhD, the Penn Center for Bioethics began as a hub for interdisciplinary scholarship.”
What Arthur Caplan has said
“Despite its risk, nurses need to acknowledge the potential benefits of collective action, whether through bargaining, voting, and/or striking. Nurse-led entities should represent nurses in addressing unjust practices.”
ethicist and professor of medical ethics · Medical ethics & regulation · 30 Sept 2026 · Opinion | Are Nurse Strikes Ethical? ↗
“When I was about six, in 1956, I was playing with my parents in their bedroom, rustling around, when they noticed my legs weren't moving well, and my mother freaked out because she knew that meant maybe polio... That's a long-winded way of explaining the genesis of my interest in medical ethics.”
Bioethicist at NYU · Medical ethics & regulation · 30 Sept 2026 · Arthur Caplan: The Right to Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Health ↗
“If you're getting into bioethics and you rotate to learn about medicine, you go to the ICU, you go to places where the palliative care is for dying people, you're looking at transplants. Nobody rotates to plastic surgery.”
founding head of the Division of Medical Ethics at New York University Grossman School of Medicine · Cosmetic procedures & aesthetics · 29 Sept 2026 · Cosmetic interventions are booming. Many say ethical conversations are lagging ↗
Where Arthur Caplan has been quoted
- Penn Bioethics at 30: A legacy of leadership, innovation, and impact recognized with ASBH Cornerstone Awardpennmedicine.org · 30 Sept 2026
- Opinion | Are Nurse Strikes Ethical?medpagetoday.com · 30 Sept 2026
- Arthur Caplan: The Right to Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Healthinsideprecisionmedicine.com · 30 Sept 2026
- Cosmetic interventions are booming. Many say ethical conversations are laggingindependent.co.uk · 29 Sept 2026
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