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Interview With Ethicist and Author Dr. Jacob Appel

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bUBXJ6fg74 Jacob M. Appel  (born February 21, 1973) is an American author, poet,  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]  Appel's novel  The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up  won the  Dundee International Book Prize  in 2012. [3] [4] [5]  He is the director of Ethics Education in Psychiatry at the  Mount Sinai School of Medicine  in New York City. Appel is the subject of the 2019 documentary film  Jacob  by director Jon Stahl. Appel was born in the  Bronx  to  Gerald B. Appel  and Alice Appel and raised in Scarsdale, New York, [6]  and Branford, Connecticut. [7]  His family is Jewish. [8]  He completed his Bachelor of Arts at Brown University with doub...