Margaret pabst battin biography of albert

          Margaret Pabst Battin, M.F.A., Ph.D.

        1. The central philosophical concern probed by Albert Camus, novelist, essayist, and playwright, was the problem of finding meaning and value.
        2. The Ethics of Suicide.
        3. Albert Camus () was a French existentialist philosopher and novelist whose works examine the alienation inherent in modern life and who is best.
        4. Battin, Margaret Pabst The Least Worst Death: Essays in Bioethics on the End of Life.

          5. The Ethics of Suicide....

          Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Adjunct Professor of Internal Medicine, Program in Medical Ethics and Humanities, at the University of Utah.

          I love writing books.  I’ve authored, co-authored, edited, or co-edited at least twenty so far (I think I’ve lost count), including works on philosophical issues in suicide, case-puzzles in aesthetics, ethical issues in organized religion, two collections of essays on end-of-life issues, The Least Worst Death and Ending Life; I’ve been the lead for two multi-authored projects, Drugs and Justice and The Patient as Victim and Vector: Ethics and Infectious Disease, brought out again by OUP with a new Preface on Covid-19; and I’ve won the University of Utah’s Distinguished Research award and received the Rosenblatt Prize, the University’s most prestigious award.

            But it’s continuing projects that seem important to me: a huge sourcebook, The Ethics of Suicide: Historical Sources, pu