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Laurence McCullough, PhD
Professor of Medicine and Medical Ethics Baylor College of Medicine Visiting Proseminar Health and Human Values Lecturer The Bioethics Program Laurence B. McCullough, Ph.D., has been Professor of Medicine and Medical Ethics in the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Professor of Family and Community Medicine, and a Faculty Associate of the Huffington Center on Aging at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, since July 1988, and Associate Director for Education of the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy since 2004. He is Adjunct Professor of Ethics in Obstetrics and Gynecology and of Public Health at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York City, Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at Rice University, and holds medical staff appointments at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital, The Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and Texas Children’s Hospital. He won an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship for 1995-1996 and was elected a Fellow the Gerontological Society of America in 1997 and of the Hastings Center in 2003. Dr. McCullough is a past president of the Society for Health and Human Values (1987-88), now the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. Dr. McCullough teaches in the Progressive Care Unit of Texas Children's Hospital, on the Medicine service of the Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and in Baylor's Departments of Pediatrics, Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Psychiatry, and Surgery. He is Director of the third-year elective in clinical ethics of Baylor’s national-award-winning four-year elective Ethics Track, the first of its kind among American medical schools. Dr. McCullough teaches the ethics courses in the certification and degree programs of the American College of Physician Executives. Dr. McCullough has published more than 300 peer-reviewed articles and 10 books. Medical Ethics: The Moral Responsibilities of Physicians, co-authored with Tom L. Beauchamp (Prentice-Hall, 1984), has been translated into Spanish (Barcelona, 1987) and Japanese (Tokyo, 1992). With Frank A. Chervenak, M.D. (Given Foundation Professor and Chairman of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University), he is co-author of Ethics in Obstetrics and Gynecology (Oxford University Press, 1994). He is co-editor with Nancy L. Wilson of Baylor's Huffington Center on Aging of Long-Term Care Decisions: Ethical and Conceptual Dimensions (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995). In 1998 his John Gregory and the Invention of Professional Medical Ethics and the Profession of Medicine and (as editor) John Gregory's Writings on Medical Ethics and the Philosophy of Medicine appeared (Kluwer), as well as Surgical Ethics (Oxford), co-edited with Baruch A. Brody and James W. Jones. He is also co-editor with Baruch A. Brody, Mark Rothstein, and Mary Anne Bobinski of Medical Ethics: Codes, Opinions, and Statements (Bureau of National Affairs, 2000) and co-author with them of a companion volume commenting on these documents (BNA, 2001). With Robert B. Baker of Union College (Schenectady, NewYork) as co-editor, Dr. McCullough is co-editor A History of Medical Ethics for Cambridge University Press, to appear 2008. Since coming to Baylor, Dr. McCullough has been or is Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator for grants and contracts from the NIH, Veterans Health Affairs, National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, private foundations, and Baylor affiliated hospitals. He is a member of the Ethics Committees of four of Baylor’s primary affiliated hospitals in the Texas Medical Center: St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital, The Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, The Methodist Hospital, and Texas Children’s Hospital. Since 1999, he has also served as Director of the Ethics Consultation Program at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital. Dr. McCullough received his A.B. in Art History from Williams College (1969) and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin (1975) and held a post-doctoral fellowship at The Hastings Center (1975-1976). He has held prior appointments on the medical and philosophy faculties at Texas A&M University (1976-1979) and Georgetown University (1979-1988), where he was a Senior Research Scholar in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics. Curriculum Vitae (word doc) > NIH Biosketch (word doc) > Recent Publications Baker RB, McCullough LB. Medical Ethics’ Appropriation of Moral Philosophy: The Case of the Sympathetic and the Unsympathetic Physician. Kennedy Inst Ethics J.: forthcoming March 2007. Skupski D, Chervenak FA, McCullough LB. An ethically justified decision-making pathway for the management of pregnancies complicated by twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome Fetal Diagn Ther: in press. McCullough LB, Coverdale JH, Chervenak FA. Constructing a systematic review for argument-based clinical ethics literature: the example of concealed medications. J Med Philos. 2007:32:65-76. Chervenak FA, McCullough LB, Levene MI. An ethically justified, clinically comprehensive approach to periviability: gynecologic, obstetric, perinatal, and neonatal dimensions. J Obstet Gynaecol. 2007: in press. Braun U, McCullough LB. Defining limits: preventing inappropriate medical intervention in the care of terminally ill patients. BMJ 2007;334:239-41. Recent Presentations (All presentations © L. McCullough 2007) Informed Consent, Assisted Consent and Assent - Download PowerPoint > Ethics Workup: A Practical Method for Ethics Case Analysis and Argument - Download PowerPoint > Ethical Challenges of Impaired Healthcare Professional for their Patients, Colleagues, and Organizational Leadership - Download PowerPoint > Ethical Challenges of End of Life Decisionmaking - Download PowerPoint > Ethics of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research - Download PowerPoint > Ethical Challenges Concerning Futile Critical Care - Download PowerPoint > |
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