Norman Fost
Position title: Professor Emeritus, Pediatrics and Bioethics
Email: ncfost@pediatrics.wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 262-1460
Interests
Ethical and legal issues in research and genetic screening; use of performance enhancing drugs; access to growth hormone; definition of death.
Education
M.P.H, Harvard University, Public Health, 1973
M.D., Yale University, Medicine, 1964
A.B., Princeton University, , 1960
Selected Articles
Allen D.B., Fost N., “Obesity and Neglect: it’s about the child,” Journal of Pediatrics 160:6 (2012), 898-899.
Varness T., Allen D.B., Carrel A, Fost N., “Childhood Obesity and Medical Neglect,” Pediatrics 123:1 (2009), 399-406.
Norman Fost, “Anti-Doping: ‘Doping’ is Pejorative and Misleading,” British Medical Journal 337:7663 (2008), 189.
Norman Fost, “The Dysregulation of Human Subjects Research,” JAMA 298:18 (2007), 2196-2198.
Norman Fost, “The Great Stem Cell Debate: Where are we now? Cloning, chimeras, and cash,” Wisconsin Medical Journal 105:4 (2006), 16-17.
Norman Fost, “America’s Gulag Archipelago,” New England Journal of Medicine 351:23 (2004), 2369-2370.
Norman Fost, “Reconsidering the Dead Donor Rule: Is it important that organ donors be dead?,” Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 14:3 (2004), 249-260.
Norman Fost, “Ethical Issues in Research and Innovative Therapy in Children with Mood Disorders,” Biological Psychiatry 49:12 (2001), 1015-1022.
Courses taught
MBH 530: Ethical Issues in Medicine
MBH 545: Ethical and Regulatory Issues in Clinical Investigation
MBH 558: Ethical Problems Raised by Biomedical Technology