Jacob M. Appel

1973 -

country of citizenship: United States of America

languages spoken, written or signed: English

educated at: Brown University, Columbia University, New York University, Harvard Law School, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Queens College, Albany Medical College, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Scarsdale High School

occupation: historian, novelist, writer, playwright, medical writer, human rights activist, journalist, poet, physician, psychiatrist, jurist, university teacher

award received: American Book Awards

official website: jacobmappel.com

Jacob M. Appel (born February 21, 1973) is an American polymath, author, bioethicist, physician, lawyer and social critic. 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. Appel's novel The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up won the Dundee International Book Prize in 2012. He is the director of Ethics Education in Psychiatry and a professor of psychiatry and medical education at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and he practices emergency psychiatry at the adjoining Mount Sinai Health System. Appel is the subject of the 2019 documentary film Jacob by director Jon Stahl. Appel coined the term "whitecoat washing" to refer to nations using medical collaboration to distract from human rights abuses. Source: Wikipedia (en)