Philip Reed

Philip Reed, PhD, is a Professor of Philosophy at Canisius ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½, where he works on ethics, applied ethics, and moral psychology. His primary research interests in bioethics are the doctrine of double effect and end of life issues. Reed is a member of the Home & Community Based Care, Palliative Care, & Ethics Committee for the Catholic Health System of Buffalo and of the ethics committee at Erie County Medical Center.

Selected Publications

  • “Discrimination against the Dying,” Journal of Medical Ethics, forthcoming.
  • “Opioids, Double Effect, and the Prospects of Hastening Death,” Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 46:5 (2021): 505-515.
  • “Against Recategorizing Physician-Assisted Suicide,” Public Affairs Quarterly, 34:1 (January 2020): 50-71.
  • “Is ‘Aid-in-Dying’ Suicide?,” Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 40:2 (2019): 123-139.
Philip Reed.

Philip Reed

Working Groups

  • Clinical Ethics
  • End of Life Issues
  • Philosophical Foundations of Bioethics