Wesley J. Smith

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Wesley J. Smith is a lawyer and an award winning author,^[1] a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, an attorney for the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide,^[2] and a special consultant for the Center for Bioethics and Culture.^[3] In 2004 he was named by the National Journal as one of the nation’s top expert thinkers in bioengineering.^[4]

Smith has authored or co-authored eleven books. He formerly collaborated with consumer advocate Ralph Nader, and has been published in regional and national outlets such as the New York Times,^[5] Newsweek,^[6] Wall Street Journal,^[7] USA Today,^[8] San Francisco Chronicle,^[9] Seattle Times,^[10] the New York Post,^[11] and many others.^[12]

[edit] Brief Biography

Smith is a prolific author, and frequent contributor to National Review^[13] and The Weekly Standard^[14]. He closely followed the case of Terri Schiavo in 2005, and wrote frequently on the topic.^[15] He opposes assisted suicide and euthanasia. He is also a noted critic of mainstream views in bioethics and of what he calls the radical animal liberation movement^[16] His book Culture of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America was named Best Health Book of the Year at the 2001 Independent Publishers Book Awards.^[17].

Smith is a frequent guest on radio and television talk shows, ^[18] has testified as an expert witness in front of federal and state legislative committees, ^[19] and is an international public speaker. ^[20]

Smith is married to conservative newspaper columnist, Debra Saunders.

[edit] Bibliography

• The Lawyer Book: A Nuts and Bolts Guide to Client SurvivalPrice Stern Sloan Publishers, 1987, ISBN 0-8431-1569-6
• The Doctor Book: A Nuts and Bolts Guide to Patient Power Price Stern Sloan Publishers, 1988, ISBN 0-89586-747-8
• The Senior Citizen's Handbook: A Nuts and Bolts Guide to More Comfortable Living Price Stern Sloan Publishers, 1989, ISBN 0-89586-795-8
• Winning the Insurance Game (1990) by Wesley J. Smith and Ralph Nader, ISBN 1-877961-17-5
• The Frugal Shopper (1991) Wesley J. Smith and Ralph Nader, ISBN 0-936758-30-9
• Collision Course: The Truth About Airline Safety (1993) Wesley J. Smith and Ralph Nader, ISBN 0-8306-4271-4
• No Contest: Corporate Lawyers and the Perversion of Justice in America (1996) Wesley J. Smith and Ralph Nader, ISBN 0-679-42972-7
• Forced Exit: The Slippery Slope from Assisted Suicide to Legalized Murder (1997), ISBN-8129-2790-7
• Forced Exit: Euthanasia, Assisted Suicide, and the New Duty to Die (2006) Encounter Books, ISBN 1-59403-119-3
• Culture of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America (2001), ISBN 1-893554-06-6
• Power Over Pain, co-authored with Eric M. Chevlen, MD, 2002, ISBN 0-9710946-0-8
• Consumer’s Guide to a Brave New World (2005), ISBN 1-893554-99-6

[edit] See also

• Cloning
• Bioethics
• Ralph Nader
• The President's Council on Bioethics
• Stem Cell Research
• Assisted Suicide
• Animal Liberation
• Human exceptionalism

[edit] References

1. ^ 2001 Book Awards, Independent Publishers Organization
2. ^ Source: International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, See, Amicus Brief of the International Anti Euthanasia Task Force before the Supreme Court of the United States,Washington v. Glucksberg, 521 U.S. 702 (1997).
3. ^ Source: CBC website.
4. ^ National Journal, May 22, 2004.
5. ^ New York Times,"Depressed? Don't Go See Dr. Kevorkian," September 16, 1995.
6. ^ Newsweek, "The Whispers of Strangers," June 28, 1993.
7. ^ For example, see Wall Street Journal, "Dependency or Death? Oregonians Make a Chilling Choice February 25, 1999.
8. ^ For example, see USA Today,"Are We Becoming Numb to Kevorkian's Actions?" September 15, 1997.
9. ^ For example, see San Francisco Chronicle, "Experimenting With Live Patients," October 22,2006.
10. ^ For example, see Seattle Times, "Assisted Suicide is Bad Medicine," March 26, 2006.
11. ^ For example, see New York Post, "Slanting the Science," June 22, 2001.
12. ^ For full list and URLs of opinion columns since June 2002, see "Articles Archives" at [1].
13. ^ For example, see National Review, "Better Dead Than Fed?" June 27, 1994.
14. ^ For example, see The Weekly Standard, "The Hard Cell," September 11, 2006.
15. ^ For example, see The Weekly Standard, "The Legacy of Terri Schiavo," April 11, 2005.
16. ^ For example, see San Francisco Chronicle"Let Great Apes be Great Apes," June 18, 2006.
17. ^ See Wesley J. Smith Biography [2]
18. ^ For partial list of programs, see Wesley J. Smith Biography,www.wesleyjsmith.com.
19. ^ For example, Smith testifed against assisted suicide before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, & Property Rights, May 25, 2006
20. ^ For speech venues, see Biography of Wesley J. Smith. Supra.

[edit] External Links

• Second Hand Smoke Blog
• Discovery Institute's Bioethics Program
• Lecture on Euthanasia at Princeton
• "Brave New Bioethics" Podcast