Interview With Ethicist and Author Dr. Jacob Appel
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 double majors in American literature and in history (1995). [9] He has seven master's degrees from: Brown Univ