Stephen Latham, JD, PhD
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Senior Research Scholar
Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health, Yale Institute for Global Health; Director, Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, Interdisciplinary Center for BioethicsBiography
Stephen R. Latham, JD, PhD is Director of the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics. A graduate of Harvard College, Harvard Law School, and UC Berkeley’s doctoral program in Jurisprudence, Latham is a former healthcare business and regulatory attorney, and served as Director of Ethics Standards at the AMA before entering academia full-time. Latham is a Fellow of the Hastings Center, and has been a graduate fellow of Harvard’s Safra Center on Ethics and a Research Fellow of the University of Edinburgh’s Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities. At Yale, Latham teaches about bioethics and environmental ethics in the College, the Law School, and the School of the Environment. He chairs the Human Subjects Committee, co-chairs the Embryonic Stem Cell Research Oversight Committee, and does clinical ethics consultation at the Yale-New Haven Hospital. He is a former board member and Secretary of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, from which he received a Distinguished Service Award in 2010. Latham's 100+ publications in bioethics and health-law have appeared in leading medical, bioethics and health-law journals.
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School of Management
Senior LecturerSecondary
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Education & Training
- PhD
- University of California at Berkeley, Jurisprudence and Social Policy (1996)
- JD
- Harvard Law School (1985)
- AB
- Harvard College, Social Studies (1982)
Research
Overview
Latham’s publications on health law, professionalism and bioethics have appeared in numerous journals and law reviews, including JAMA, Nature, the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of Medical Ethics, the Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, the Hastings Center Report, the Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics, the American Journal of Bioethics, the Journal of Legal Medicine, the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, Public Health Ethics, and the Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie. He has contributed chapters to numerous university-press books, including the Blackwell Guide to Medical Ethics and the Cambridge World History of Bioethics. He has been a book-review editor for the American Journal of Bioethics, and currently serves on its editorial board. He was an associate editor of the Encyclopedia of Bioethics (4th Ed.) and of the Cambridge Dictionary of Bioethics, and has been a contributing editor of the Hastings Center Report. He is co-editor of two books, Genetics, Ethics and Education (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2017) and The American Medical Ethics Revolution (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press), which was selected by Choice as one of the “top academic books of 2000.”
Academic Achievements and Community Involvement
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News
- April 02, 2024Source: Yale ISPS
Yale-led Study Spurs Federal Action: HHS Requires Consent for Intimate Medical Procedures
- August 03, 2022Source: BBC
Pig organs partially revived hour after death
- April 17, 2019
Scientists Restore Some Functions in a Pig’s Brain Hours After Death
- October 18, 2017
Mobile Devices May Determine How Places and People Increase HIV Risk Behavior