John A. Robertson
John A. Robertson (June 15, 1943 – July 5, 2017)[1] held the Vinson and Elkins Chair at The University of Texas School of Law. He wrote and lectured widely on law and bioethical issues.[2]
Robertson was the author of two books on bioethics, The Rights of the Critically Ill, published in 1983, and Children of Choice: Freedom and the New Reproductive Technologies, published in 1994, and numerous articles on reproductive rights, genetics, organ transplantation, and human experimentation.
He served on, or had been a consultant to, many national bioethics advisory bodies, and was Chair of the Ethics Committee of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. Robertson was a fellow of the Hastings Center, an independent bioethics research institution.[3]
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[edit]- ^ "John Robertson, longtime UT law professor, dies". Archived from the original on 2017-08-07. Retrieved 2017-07-09.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-10-18. Retrieved 2009-05-05.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ The Hastings Center Archived 2016-05-09 at the Wayback Machine Hastings Center Fellows. Accessed November 6, 2010
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