Jacob M. Appel | |
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| Born | February 21, 1973 New York City, U.S. |
| Occupation | Author Psychiatrist Bioethicist |
| Education | Brown University (BA, MA) Columbia University (MA, MPhil, MD) New York University (MFA) Harvard University (JD) Albany Medical Center (MS) City University of New York, Queens (MFA) Mount Sinai Medical Center (MPH) |
| Period | 1997–present |
| Genre | short story, essay, drama, novel, poem |
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Jacob M. Appel (born February 21, 1973) is an American polymath, author, bioethicist, physician, lawyer and social critic.[1][2] He is best known for his short stories, his work as a playwright, and his writing in the fields of reproductive ethics, organ donation, neuroethics, and euthanasia.[1] Appel's novel The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up won the Dundee International Book Prize in 2012.[3][4][5] He is the director of Ethics Education in Psychiatry and a professor of psychiatry and medical education at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and he practices emergency psychiatry at the adjoining Mount Sinai Health System. Appel is the subject of the 2019 documentary film Jacob by director Jon Stahl.
Appel coined the term "whitecoat washing" to refer to nations using medical collaboration to distract from human rights abuses.[6]
- ^ a b Nagamatsu, Sequoia "A Few Words with the Ubiquitous Jacob M. Appel" Prince Mincer Journal http://primemincer.com/ Archived 2015-07-21 at the Wayback Machine confirmed 26 April 2013
- ^ "THE CYNIC IN EXTREMIS by Jacob M. Appel | Kirkus Reviews" – via www.kirkusreviews.com.
- ^ Dundee International Book Prize won by Jacob M Appel, BBC, 25 October 2012
- ^ Book review: The Man Who Wouldn’t Stand Up, Jacob Appel, The Scotsman, Lifestyle, 17 Nov 2012
- ^ Jacob M Appel named as Dundee International Book Prize winner, The Courier, 9 January 2013
- ^ Appel JM. Against Whitecoat Washing: The Need for Formal Human Rights Assessment in International Collaborations. Am J Bioeth. 2022 Oct;22(10):1-4.