Nigel Cameron is a historian and ethicist whose work has spanned the disciplines of bioethics, history, and religion over a distinguished transatlantic academic career. He currently serves as a senior fellow at the University of Ottawa and was previously a research professor of bioethics at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, where he led pioneering projects on the social and ethical impact of emerging technologies and on diabetes policy. A former Fulbright visiting research chair at the University of Ottawa’s Institute for Science, Society and Policy, he continues to explore the intersection of medicine, ethics, and public policy.
Dr. Cameron was the founding editor of the journal Ethics and Medicine and has served as a hospital consulting ethicist. He has held board roles with UK think tanks 2020health.org and BioCentre, and has testified before committees of the U.S. Congress and the European Union. He has also represented the United States in diplomatic delegations to United Nations health-related agencies and was nominated by the U.S. government to serve as UN Special Rapporteur for the Right to Health.
His books include Dr. Koop: The Many Lives of the Surgeon General, Will Robots Take Your Job? A Plea for Consensus, and The New Medicine: Life and Death After Hippocrates. His current project, Ruth: The Psychiatrist Who Saved Sylvia Plath, Until She Couldn’t, continues his exploration of complex figures in medicine.
For more about his work, visit drkoop.bio, or connect with him on Facebook and LinkedIn.
Nigel Cameron is a historian and ethicist whose work has spanned the disciplines of bioethics, history, and religion over a distinguished transatlantic academic career. He currently serves as a senior fellow at the University of Ottawa and was previously a research professor of bioethics at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, where he led pioneering projects on the social and ethical impact of emerging technologies and on diabetes policy. A former Fulbright visiting research chair at the University of Ottawa's Institute for Science, Society and Policy, he continues to explore the intersection of medicine, ethics, and public policy.
Dr. Cameron was the founding editor of the journal Ethics and Medicine and has served as a hospital consulting ethicist. He has held board roles with UK think tanks 2020health.org and BioCentre, and has testified before committees of the U.S. Congress and the European Union. He has also represented the United States in diplomatic delegations to United Nations health-related agencies and was nominated by the U.S. government to serve as UN Special Rapporteur for the Right to Health.
His books include Dr. Koop: The Many Lives of the Surgeon General, Will Robots Take Your Job? A Plea for Consensus, and The New Medicine: Life and Death After Hippocrates. His current project, Ruth: The Psychiatrist Who Saved Sylvia Plath, Until She Couldn't, continues his exploration of complex figures in medicine.
For more about his work, visit drkoop.bio, or connect with him on Facebook and LinkedIn.
An excerpt from Dr. Koop: The Many Lives of the Surgeon General.
“I’ve had two major messages that I’ve tried to get out to the public all my professional life,” Koop proclaimed. “One is to take charge of your own health. The other is that there is no prescription I can give you that is more valuable than knowledge … I’ve tried the non-profit world, …
An excerpt from Dr. Koop: The Many Lives of the Surgeon General.
“I was the salesman for pediatric surgery. I have the knack of talking to an audience and convincing [them] about what I’m saying is true.”
– CEK
The early 1950s witnessed an extraordinary burst of professional activity on the part of the young surgeon, still in his 30s, as the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) …
An excerpt from Dr. Koop: The Many Lives of the Surgeon General.
In spring of 1946 the young Koop was sent to Boston for several months to spend time with the giants of the nascent field of pediatric surgery, William E. Ladd (1880–1967), and his trainee and successor Robert Gross (1905–1988). In his survey of the history of the discipline, Judson Randolph …
An excerpt from Dr. Koop: The Many Lives of the Surgeon General.
“I have learned that, when an idea’s time has come—and it is on your watch—you must seize the moment.”
– CEK, Glasgow speech
It would take C. Everett Koop, M.D., Sc.D., just an hour—one very well-prepared hour—to overturn nine months of obloquy and ridicule. In the process, he re-ordered the public face of …
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