Jacob M. Appel Explained

Jacob M. Appel
Birth Date:21 February 1974
Birth Place:New York City, U.S.
Education:Brown University (BA, MA)
Columbia University (MA, MPhil, MD)
New York University (MFA)
Harvard University (JD)
Albany Medical College (MS)
City University of New York, Queens (MFA)
Mount Sinai Medical Center (MPH)
Period:1997–present
Genre:short story, essay, drama, novel, poem

Jacob M. Appel (born February 21, 1974) is an American polymath, author, bioethicist, physician, lawyer, and social critic.[1] [2] He is best known for his short stories, his work as a playwright, and his writing in the fields of reproductive ethics, organ donation, neuroethics, and euthanasia.[1] He is also an authority on the health of United States Presidents.[3] [4] [5]

Appel's novel The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up won the Dundee International Book Prize in 2012.[6] [7] [8] He is the director of Ethics Education in Psychiatry and a professor of psychiatry and medical education at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and he practices emergency psychiatry at the adjoining Mount Sinai Health System. Appel is the subject of the 2019 documentary film Jacob by director Jon Stahl.

Appel coined the term "whitecoat washing" to refer to nations using medical collaboration to distract from human rights abuses.[9]

Education

Medical training

Academic bioethics

Appel began his career in academic bioethics at Brown University, where he taught until 2005. He now serves on the faculty of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, where he is Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine Education. He is also the Director of Ethics Education in Psychiatry and Medical Director of the East Harlem Health Outreach Project's mental health clinic. He has also taught medical ethics at New York University,[20] [21] Columbia University,[22] and Albany Medical College. He is the author of a "Bioethics in Action" curriculum for The New York Times.[23] [24] Appel was also previously a columnist for The Huffington Post and Opposing Views.

Appel has published on a range of topics in academic bioethics including advocating for the decriminalization of assisted suicide,[25] raising the possibility that this might be made available to both the terminally ill and those with intractable, long-term mental illness,[26] [27] and the Groningen Protocol.[28] He has written in favor of abortion rights and fertility treatment for same-sex couples, as well as against electronic medical records, which he sees as poorly secured against hacking.[29] He has also argued in favor of the legalization of prostitution and polygamy between consenting adults.[30] He has raised concerns regarding the possibility that employers will require their employees to use pharmaceuticals for cognitive enhancement and has urged that death row inmates be eligible to receive kidney transplants.[31] [32] Appel has opposed the forcible feeding of hunger strikers, both in domestic prisons and at Guantanamo Bay.[33] [34]

Writing

Appel has taught creative writing at the Gotham Writers' Workshop and New York University.[35] He served as writer-in-residence at Yeshiva College in 2013.[36] As of 2023, he is Vice President and Treasurer of the National Book Critics Circle.

He has written that exposure to literature should be a medical school admissions requirement.[37]

Personal life

Appel was born in the Bronx to Gerald B. Appel and Alice Appel and raised in Scarsdale, New York[38] and Branford, Connecticut.[39]

Books

Plays

Notes and References

  1. Nagamatsu, Sequoia "A Few Words with the Ubiquitous Jacob M. Appel" Prince Mincer Journal http://primemincer.com/ confirmed 26 April 2013
  2. Web site: THE CYNIC IN EXTREMIS by Jacob M. Appel | Kirkus Reviews. www.kirkusreviews.com.
  3. https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5584101-trump-mri-raises-questions/
  4. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/cancer-combat-coughs-history-presidential-health-concerns-n646951
  5. https://www.c-span.org/program/washington-journal/dr-jacob-appel-on-the-history-of-presidential-illnesses/644502
  6. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-20088112 Dundee International Book Prize won by Jacob M Appel
  7. http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/books/features/book-review-the-man-who-wouldn-t-stand-up-jacob-appel-1-2643009 Book review: The Man Who Wouldn’t Stand Up, Jacob Appel
  8. Jacob M Appel named as Dundee International Book Prize winner, The Courier, 9 January 2013
  9. Appel JM. Against Whitecoat Washing: The Need for Formal Human Rights Assessment in International Collaborations. Am J Bioeth. 2022 Oct;22(10):1-4.
  10. Web site: Mount Siani School of Medicine Psychiatry Residency Class of 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150227230903/http://icahn.mssm.edu/static_files/MSSM/Files/Departments/Psychiatry/Programs%20and%20Services/Psychiatry%20Residency/PsychiatryResidency_Classof2013.pdf . February 27, 2015 . November 21, 2014.
  11. Web site: 1999-03-29 . Jacob M. Appel . 2024-12-29 . Poets & Writers . en.
  12. Arborphilia tackles social issues, The Detroit News, Oct 27, 2006
  13. Web site: Interview with Prime Mincer . 2013-04-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150721211155/http://primemincer.com/ . 2015-07-21 . dead .
  14. Sweden Asks: Should Convicted Murderers Practice Medicine? Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics / Volume 19 / Issue 04 / October 2010, pp 559-562
  15. Jacob Appel ’09: Doctor, Lawyer, Writer, Teacher, Tour Guide, Columbia Medicine, October 04, 2011, Available online at http://www.cumc.columbia.edu/psjournal/features/jacob-appel%E2%80%9909-doctor-lawyer-writer-teacher-tour-guide
  16. Web site: Casual Conversation February 12, 2023 with Jacob Appel, MD Dartmouth Class of '69 . 2025-06-20 . www.dartmouth69.org.
  17. Web site: Jacob M Appel - Psychiatry Mount Sinai - New York . 2024-12-29 . Mount Sinai Health System . en.
  18. "Harsh Treatment at Guantánamo" NYT April 21, 2013
  19. News: APPEL: The silent rise of the DNA nannies . The Washington Times.
  20. Republican-American, "Resurgence of pro-life sentiment," 1 Jul 2009
  21. Venus Theatre's 2009 Season, Washington Post 17 Dec 2008
  22. Literary Notes,Greensboro News & Record 23 Oct 2005
  23. News: Bioethics in Action, Part I: Helping Students Explore Difficult Questions in Health Care. Jacob M.. Appel. The New York Times . January 10, 2018.
  24. News: Bioethics in Action, Part II: Teaching About the Challenge of Balancing the Needs of Patients. Jacob M.. Appel. The New York Times . January 11, 2018.
  25. Room for Debate: The Power of the 'Culture War' NYT April 10, 2012
  26. Web site: BioEdge: WHY DENY THE DEPRESSED THEIR RIGHT TO SUICIDE?. BioEdge. 2019-06-30. 2019-06-30. https://web.archive.org/web/20190630214238/https://www.bioedge.org/bioethics/why_deny_the_depressed_their_right_to_suicide/6583. dead.
  27. Web site: Hastings Center Report. September 17, 2015. The Hastings Center.
  28. Mike Hinkle, "Europe’s euthanasia enthusiasm is alarming," Edmonton Sun, April 26, 2013
  29. Web site: Chicago Tribune article. .
  30. Web site: Legalize Prostitution, Polygamy, Bestiality and Incest | Jacob Appel | Big Think . 2011-08-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110926143605/http://bigthink.com/ideas/23049 . 2011-09-26 . dead .
  31. Appel . J M . 2008 . When the boss turns pusher: a proposal for employee protections in the age of cosmetic neurology . J Med Ethics . 34 . 8. 616–618 . 10.1136/jme.2007.022723 . 18667652 .
  32. Appel . JM . 2005. Wanted Dead or Alive? Kidney Transplantation in Inmates Awaiting Execution . The Journal of Clinical Ethics . 16. 1. 58–60. 10.1086/JCE200516106 . 15915846 .
  33. Appel, Jacob. Harsh Treatment at Guantánamo, The New York Times, April 21, 2013
  34. Appel . Jacob . 2012 . Rethinking Force-Feeding: Legal and Ethical Aspects of Physician Participation in the Termination of Hunger Strikes in American Prisons . Public Affairs Quarterly . 26 .
  35. http://www.writingclasses.com/FacultyBios/facultyProfileByInstructor.php/TeacherID/33649
  36. Web site: Writing Minor | Yeshiva University. www.yu.edu.
  37. https://www.theatlantic.com/letters/archive/2018/08/letter-literature-should-be-a-medical-school-admissions-requirement/566756/ Letter: Literature Should Be a Medical School Admissions Requirement
  38. Rosenblum, Constance. Boulevard of Dreams, New York University Press, 2009, P. 174
  39. Appel, JM. Phoning Home. University of South Carolina Press, 2015
  40. News: Dundee International Book Prize won by Jacob M Appel - BBC News . BBC News . 25 October 2012 . 2016-05-29.
  41. Web site: Runcie . Charlotte . Jacob M Appel's The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up wins Dundee Book Prize . The List . 29 October 2012 . 2016-05-29.
  42. Motika, Libby. Bonitanicum Seedlings. Palisadian Post June 1, 2006
  43. Shade, Karen "Round the Bend Players offer funny, sometimes dark story," Tulsa World, August 24, 2006
  44. Readling, Mike. "IRSC's Fine Arts Season promises mix of dance, drama, musical theater," Treasure Coast Palm August 28, 2009
  45. http://zip06.theday.com/blogs/intentional_theatre/archive/2008/08/16/could-you-have-done-better.aspx Could you have done better?
  46. Highlights of fall season, Detroit Free Press, August 23, 2009
  47. Reinink, Amy, "Women claim a dramatic spot in Laurel," Business Gazette, August 27, 2009

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