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TIMOTHY F. MURPHY
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Department of Medical Education, M/C 591
973 CME
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL 60607

tel: (312) 996-3595
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Timothy F. Murphy is Professor of Philosophy in the Biomedical Sciences in the College of Medicine. He received his Ph.D. from Boston College, and his main fields of interest are philosophy of medicine, the bioethics of genetic research, assisted reproduction, and human sexuality. He is the author of Gay Science: The Ethics of Sexual Orientation Research (Columbia, 1997) and Ethics in an Epidemic: AIDS, Morality, and Culture (California 1994). He is also the co-editor of Justice and the Human Genome Project (California, 1994) and Writing AIDS: Gay Literature, Language, and Analysis (Columbia, 1993). From 1998 - 2001 he held a $663,000 grant in research ethics from the National Institutes of Health. He has also received grant support from the Department of Defense and has been a Fellow at the UIC Institute for the Humanities. In 2004, MIT published his Case Studies in Biomedical Research Ethics. His recent work has appeared in Pediatrics, Journal of Clinical Ethics, American Journal of Bioethics, and Reproductive Biology and Medicine . He is a member of the Ethics Committee of the American College of Surgeons Oncology Group and the American Academy of Pain Medicine Council on Ethics. His current book project is Ethics in Military Medicine.