Stephen Latham
Stephen R. Latham, JD, PhD, is Director Emeritus of the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics. A graduate of Harvard College, Harvard Law School, and UC Berkeley’s doctoral program in jurisprudence, Professor Latham was a healthcare business and regulatory attorney and served as director of ethics standards at the AMA before entering academia full-time. He is a fellow of the Hastings Center and a member of its Fellows’ Council, 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, Professor Latham has taught 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 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. Professor Latham’s 150+ publications in bioethics and health law have appeared in leading medical, bioethics and health-law journals. His co-edited books include Genetics, Ethics, and Education (Cambridge, 2017) and The American Medical Ethics Revolution: How the AMA’s Code of Ethics Has Transformed Physicians’ Relationships to Patients, Professionals, and Society (Johns Hopkins,1999); and served as an associate editor of the 4th edition (2014) of the MacMillan Encyclopedia of Bioethics.