Professor Recommendations
Brief Bio:
Following graduation, Professor Mayo was an associate with the Rochester, New York, firm of Nixon, Hargrave, Devans & Doyle (now Nixon Peabody, LLP) and then served during 1979-80 as a law clerk to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He was then associated with the Washington, D.C., firm of Covington & Burling where he practiced in the areas of antitrust, securities fraud, election law, and communications. In addition to his position at SMU, Professor Mayo is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School and is the immediate-past Director of SMU’s Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility. He is a founding Fellow and past board member of the American Health Lawyers Association, the editor of the Medical Humanities Series of the SMU Press, a Fellow in the Dallas Institute for Humanities and Culture, a long-time member of the Council of the Health Law Section of the State Bar of Texas, and a recipient of the Dallas Medical Society’s Heath Award for his contributions to medicine and leadership in Dallas County. Professor Mayo has taught Administrative Law, Business Torts, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Family Law, Federal Courts, Land Use, and Legislation, and currently teaches Bioethics & Law; Health Care Law; Law, Literature & Medicine; Nonprofit Organizations; and Torts.
Department:
Law and Medical Ethicist
Courses:
Health Care Law, Bioethics, Medical-Legal Humanities
Comments:
"[Tom Mayo's focus] is much more upon medical ethics than bioethics. The distinction is not always observed, but when it is, bioethics usually denotes 'the study of ethical issues arising in the practice of the biological disciplines,' including all the health care professions (e.g., medicine, nursing, veterinary medicine) and the biological sciences, such as environmental ethics and 'various sociopolitical moral issues, including the adverse effects on people's health of unemployment, poverty, unjust discrimination, crime, war, and torture' (quoted language is from Raanan Gillon, "Bioethics Overview," in 1 Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics (Academic Press, 1998, Ruth Chadwick, ed.). The Web resources that follow are mostly concerned with medical ethics."
Tom Mayo, Former Director of the Maguire Ethics Center
Recommended Websites:
Tom Mayo has increbible website that he includes an extensive list of Bioethics Links and Medical Ethics.
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