Academic
Ronald Munson received his Ph.D. from Columbia University and was
a Postdoctoral Fellow in Biology at Harvard University. He taught
as a Preceptor in Philosophy at Columbia College (Columbia University)
and has been a Visiting Professor at the University of California,
San Diego, the Harvard Medical School, and Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine.
He has served as bioethicist for a National Institutes of Health
multicenter study, the National Cancer Institute, the Monsanto Recombinant
DNA Advisory Committee, and the Washington University School of
Medicine Human Subjects Committee.
His expertise is in medical ethics and the philosophy of science
and medicine. His articles have appeared in
Philosophy of Science,
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science,
History
and Philosophy of Science,
Journal of Medicine and Philosophy,
Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, and
New England
Journal of Medicine. His work has also been anthologized numerous
times. He has been awarded grants by the National Endowment for
Humanities, the Weldon Spring Fund, and the National Science Foundation.
His book
Intervention and Reflection: Basic Issues in Medical
Ethics (Wadsworth), now in its 7th ed., is the most widely
used medical ethics text in the United States. His other books include
Reasoning in Medicine: An Introduction
to Clinical Inference
(with Daniel Albert, M.D. and Michael Resnik, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins),
The Way of Words (Houghton-
Mifflin),
Man and Nature:
Philosophical Issues in Biology (Delacorte),
Elements of
Reasoning, 4th ed. (with Andrew Black, Wadsworth). His most
recent books are
Outcome Uncertain: Cases and Contexts in Bioethics
and
Raising the Dead: Social and Ethical Issues in Organ Transplantation
(Oxford University Press).
He has acted as a source on biomedical ethics and been interviewed
by (among others) the
New York Times,
Washington-Post,
U.S. News and World Report,
St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
Science Digest,
Smithsonian Magazine. He has appeared
on ABC Evening News, ABC Morning News, Today Show, Fox News Network,
Brian Williams and the News, NBC National Radio, NYC Radio, National
Public Radio, and BBC Radio. He consulted on the ethical aspects
of gene therapy for Japanese National Television.
Literary
Ronald Munson is the author of three well-received novels:
Nothing Human (Pocket Books Hardcover; Pocket Books,
paper; British Edition published by Simon and Schuster, Ltd.); Literary
Guild Alternate Selection, Selection of the Doubleday Book Club
and the Mystery Guild; translated into Swedish and German; optioned
for film.
Fan Mail (Dutton; Discus, paper); Book of the Month Club
Alternate Selection; starred review in Publisher's Weekly; translated
into German, Japanese, Dutch, and French; made into a German radio
play; optioned for film.
Night Vision (Dutton; Signet, paper); translated into
Dutch, Swedish, and German.
Interviews and reviews have appeared in such places as
People,
Los Angeles Times,
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and
the
Miami Herald, as well as on CNN, Unsolved Mysteries,
and Aspecta (German National Television).
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