William J. Peace
William J. Peace is currently the Jeannette K. Watson distinguished visiting professor at Syracuse University. Since 2006 Peace has been sharp critique of utilitarian bioethicists, growth attenuation, and a staunch disability rights activist. Peace has lectured widely in recent years and has presented papers at the American Association of Bioethics and Humanities, Columbia University, Yale University, UpState Medical School, Western Ontario University, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, and Syracuse University. Peace served as the Ombudsman for disability at the recent meeting of the ASBH and is on their Presidential Task Force on Disability and Inclusion. He is also on the board of directors of Not Dad Yet and recently gave expert testimony at the Massachusetts State House in opposition to pending assisted suicide legislation. He has published in bioethics journals such as the Hastings Center Report. This spring Peace will be speaking at Weil Cornel Medical College and Emory University on death and disability. He has a major paper coming out in a special issue of the Journal of Philosophy Science and Law and is working on a paper about the disabled men and women who were killed by Jack Kevorkian. Not content with reaching a scholarly audience alone, Peace maintains the widely read blog Bad Cripple and publishes more polemical essays in CounterPunch as part of an effort to improve the lives of all people with a disability.