Dan Brock going to Harvard Medical School

Dan Brock, one of the most talented philosophers (perhaps the most talented) working in medical ethics, will be leaving the National Institute of Health at the end of March 2004 to take up a new Chair at the Harvard Medical School, where he will direct the Division of Medical Ethics and participate in a new university-wide program in ethics and health. Other units at Harvard have in the last year or two added other first-rate philosophers working in and around medical ethics, including Norman Daniels, Frances Myrna Kamm, and Daniel Wikler. (Only Kamm, so far, has an official appointment in the Philosophy Department proper.) This latest addition certainly makes Harvard the place to be for medical ethics.