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          Margaret Pabst Battin, also known as Peggy Battin, is an American philosopher, medical ethicist, author, and a current distinguished professor at the.!

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          Philosopher and medical scientist

          Margaret Battin

          NationalityAmerican
          Other namesPeggy Battin M.

          Pabst Battin

          CitizenshipUSA
          Alma materBryn Mawr College 1963, BAUniversity of California, Irvine (1973, MFA 1976, PhD)
          Known forAssisted suicide research
          ChildrenMichael Wood Battin Sara Battin Pearson
          Scientific career
          FieldsPhilosophy, ethics
          InstitutionsUniversity of Utah
          Thesis Plato on Truth and Truthlessness in Poetry  (1976)

          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 suicide 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 suicide. Battin is a Hastings Center Fellow.

          In 2008, Battin's husband became quadriplegic