Hiram Caton | |
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| Born | Hiram Pendleton Caton III 16 August 1936 |
| Died | 13 December 2010 (aged 74)[3] Ingham, Queensland, Australia |
| Nationality | Australian/USA |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago Yale University (PhD) Griffith University (D.Litt) |
| Known for | The Politics of Progress AIDS denial |
| Awards | National Humanities Fellowship 1982–1983[1] Research Fellow in the Institute for Advanced Studies[2] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Politics History |
| Institutions | Griffith University |
| Website | www |
Hiram Pendleton Caton III (16 August 1936 – 13 December 2010) was a professor of politics and history at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia, until his retirement. He was an ethicist, a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Biology[4] (since 1994),[5] and a founding member of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences.[6] He was an officer of the International Society for Human Ethology.[6] Caton held a National Humanities Fellowship at the National Humanities Center in 1982–83.[7] He was the inaugural Professor of Humanities at Griffith University in Brisbane, and later the Professor of Politics and History[8] and Head of the School of Applied Ethics[9] there.