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Sydney A. Halpern
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Sydney A. Halpern

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Sydney Halpern is a historical sociologist who has written extensively about twentieth-century American medical institutions and biomedical science.  For some time, her focus has been the framing of moral issues in the conduct of human research. She earned her doctorate in Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, with a concentration in historical analysis, and has served as Full Professor at both Vanderbilt University and the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has also been a visiting scholar at the Center for Bioethics, University Pennsylvania School of Medicine; the Institute for Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois; and the American Bar Foundation, a center for socio-legal scholarship. Her funding awards include an Investigator Award in Health Policy Research from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and a major grant and several University Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities. For Dangerous Medicine, she received a multi-year award from the National Library of Medicine within the National Institutes of Health. She is currently Professor Emerita at University of Illinois at Chicago, and Lecturer at the Program in Medical Humanities and Bioethics, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University.
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