Margaret Battin, Date of Birth

Margaret Battin

philosopher and medical scientist

Date of Birth: 29-Nov-1940

Profession: philosopher, medical researcher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Margaret Pabst Battin, also known as Peggy Battin, is an American philosopher, medical ethicist, author, and a current Distinguished Professor at the University of Utah.
She is a supporter of assisted dying and has worked extensively on ethical aspects of this issue.
In 1993, she was named a Spinoza Chair at the University of Amsterdam for her studies on assisted dying.
Battin is a Hastings Center Fellow.
In 2008 Battin's husband became quadriplegic after a bicycle accident, which caused her to refine and augment her thinking about assisted dying; he died in 2013 after he requested to turn off his life support.