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Robert M. Veatch publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Robert M. Veatch sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 372 publications — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Robert M. Veatch D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Robert M. Veatch sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 47 D-Index — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Robert M. Veatch was affiliated with Georgetown University in the United States. Their research primarily focused on medicine, with significant contributions in public health, environmental and occupational health, general health professions, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, and transplantation.

Their scholarly work addressed key topics including ethics in medical practice, ethics and legal issues in pediatric healthcare, patient dignity and privacy, organ donation and transplantation, renal transplantation outcomes and treatments, and pregnancy and medication impact.

Selected recent publications by Robert M. Veatch included:

  • "Reconciling Lists of Principles in Bioethics," 2020, published in The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine
  • "Should Institutions Disclose the Names of Employees with Covid-19?," 2020, published in The Hastings Center Report
  • "Determinants of kidney transplant candidates' decision to accept organ donor intervention transplants and participate in post-transplant research: A conjoint analysis," 2021, published in Clinical Transplantation

Frequent co-authors included:

  • Daniel P. Sulmasy
  • Elisa J. Gordon
  • Peter L. Abt
  • Jungwha Lee
  • Elizabeth Knopf

Their publications appeared in venues such as The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine, The Hastings Center Report, and Clinical Transplantation.

Best Publications

  • A theory of medical ethics

    Robert M. Veatch

  • Death, Dying, and the Biological Revolution; Our Last Quest for Responsibility

    Joy K. Ufema;Robert M. Veatch

  • Models for Ethical Medicine in a Revolutionary Age

    Robert M. Veatch

  • The Basics of Bioethics

    Robert M. Veatch

  • Abandoning informed consent

    Robert M. Veatch

  • The impending collapse of the whole-brain definition of death.

    Robert M. Veatch

  • Cross-Cultural Perspectives in Medical Ethics

    Robert M. Veatch

  • Medically futile care: the role of the physician in setting limits.

    Robert M. Veatch;Carol Mason Spicer

  • The whole-brain-oriented concept of death: an outmoded philosophical formulation.

    Robert M Veatch

  • Case Studies in Nursing Ethics

    Sara T. Fry;Robert M. Veatch

  • The nondirected live-kidney donor: Ethical considerations and practice guidelines. A national conference report

    Patricia L. Adams;David J. Cohen;Gabriel M. Danovitch;Reverend Mark D. Edington

  • The Care of the Terminally Ill: Morality and Economics

    Ronald Bayer;Daniel Callahan;John Fletcher;Thomas Hodgson

  • Death, dying, and the biological revolution

    Robert Veatch

  • Ethics, trust, and the professions : philosophical and cultural aspects

    Edmund D. Pellegrino;Robert M. Veatch;John Langan

  • The Foundations of Justice: Why the Retarded and the Rest of Us Have Claims to Equality

    Robert M. Veatch

  • Donating hearts after cardiac death--reversing the irreversible.

    Robert M Veatch

  • Generalization of expertise.

    Robert M. Veatch

  • Case Studies in Medical Ethics

    Stanley Bernstein;Robert M. Veatch

  • The death of whole-brain death: the plague of the disaggregators, somaticists, and mentalists.

    Robert M Veatch

  • The impossibility of a morality internal to medicine.

    Robert M. Veatch

  • The Ethics of Consent: Theory and Practice

    Robert M. Veatch

  • Disrupted Dialogue: Medical Ethics and the Collapse of Physician-Humanist Communication (1770-1980)

    Robert M. Veatch

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel Callahan
Daniel Callahan Hastings Center
Francis L. Delmonico
Francis L. Delmonico Harvard University
Peter A. Ubel
Peter A. Ubel Duke University
Arthur L. Caplan
Arthur L. Caplan New York University
Arthur J. Matas
Arthur J. Matas University of Minnesota
Dan W. Brock
Dan W. Brock Harvard University
Edmund D. Pellegrino
Edmund D. Pellegrino Georgetown University
Ronald Bayer
Ronald Bayer Columbia University
Charles W. Lidz
Charles W. Lidz University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Tom L. Beauchamp
Tom L. Beauchamp Georgetown University

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