William F. May (ethicist)

William Francis May (born 25 October 1927) is an American ethicist.

May was born in Chicago and later moved to Houston, where he graduated from high school, aged sixteen. He was accepted at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, and sought to pursue a career in law and politics. After the death of his high school debate coach, May became interested in philosophy. At the age of 20, May spent a year in Oklahoma as an interim pastor, then enrolled at Yale Divinity School. He earned a degree in divinity in 1952, started his teaching career in theology at Smith College, and simultaneously pursued a doctorate in contemporary theology at Yale, which he obtained in 1962. Four years after completing his doctorate, May joined the Indiana University as chair of ethics.[1][2] While teaching at Indiana, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1978.[3] In 1985, May began teaching at Southern Methodist University as Cary M. Maguire University Professor of Ethics. He held the professorship until 2001.[2] During his tenure at SMU, May also served as the inaugural director of the Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility from 1995 to 1998.[1][2] In 2017, the directorship of the Maguire Center for Ethics was endowed in May's name.[2][4] May is a founding fellow of The Hastings Center and served on the President's Council on Bioethics from 2002 to 2004.[5] In September 2007, James H. Billington named May the Cary and Ann Maguire Chair in American History and Ethics at the John W. Kluge Center. May retained the position for three months.[6]

Publications
  • May, William F. (1983). The Physician's Covenant: Images of the Healer in Medical Ethics. Westminster John Knox Press. ISBN 9780664244972.[7]
  • May, William F. (1991). The Patient's Ordeal. Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780253208705.[8]
  • May, William F. (2004) [1996]. Testing the Medical Covenant: Active Euthanasia and Health Care Reform. Wipf & Stock. ISBN 9781592444533.[9]
  • May, William F.; Soens Jr., A. Lewis, eds. (2000). The Ethics of Giving and Receiving: Am I My Foolish Brother's Keeper?. Southern Methodist University Press. ISBN 9780870744525.[10]
  • May, William F. (2001). Beleaguered Rulers: The Public Obligation of the Professional. Westminster John Knox Press. ISBN 9780664226718.[11]
  • May, William F. (2011). Testing the National Covenant: Fears and Appetites in American Politics. Georgetown University Press. ISBN 9781589017658.[12]

References
  1. Tucker, Chris (1 December 1987). "An Interview With WILLIAM MAY". D Magazine. Retrieved 26 June 2022.
  2. "$2 Million gift to endow directorship of SMU's Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility". Southern Methodist University. 9 January 2017. Retrieved 26 June 2022.
  3. "William F. May". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 26 June 2022.
  4. "SMU Receives $2 Million to Endow Ethics Center Directorship". Philanthropy News Digest. 14 January 2017. Retrieved 26 June 2022.
  5. "William May, PhD". Georgetown University. Retrieved 26 June 2022.
  6. "William F. May Appointed to Maguire Chair in American History at the John W. Kluge Center". Library of Congress. 20 September 2007. Retrieved 26 June 2022.
  7. Reviews of The Physician's Covenant include:
    • Ledeher, Susan Eyrich (October 1984). "WILLIAM F. MAY. The Physician's Covenant: Images of the Healer in Medical Ethics. Philadelphia, Westminster Press, 1983. 204 pp. $10.95 paper". Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. 39 (4): 503. doi:10.1093/jhmas/39.4.503.
    • Shannon, Thomas A. (1985). "The Physician's Covenant: Images of the Healer in Medical Ethics. By William F. May. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1983. 204 pages. $10.95 (paper)". Horizons. 12 (1): 204–205. doi:10.1017/S0360966900034794.
    • Gardner, E. Clinton (April 1986). "The Physician's Covenant: Images of the Healer in Medical Ethics. William F. May Human Life: A Biblical Perspective for Bioethics. J. Robert Nelson". The Journal of Religion. 66 (2): 214–215. doi:10.1086/487372.
    • "The Physician's Covenant: Images of the Healer in Medical Ethics". Annals of Internal Medicine. February 1985. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-102-2-281_3.
    • Mermann, Alan C. (January–February 1985). "The Physician's Covenant. Images of the Healer in Medical Ethics". Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine. 58 (1): 53–54. PMC 2589827.
    • Connery, John R. (October 1984). "The Physician's Covenant: Images of the Healer in Medical Ethics by William F. May Philadelphia, Westminster Press, 1981. 204 pp. $10.95". Theology Today. 41 (3). doi:10.1177/004057368404100324.
    • Riley, Joy (2004). "The Physician's Covenant: Images of the Healer in Medical Ethics, 2nd edition". Ethics and Medicine. 20 (3): 182–183. ProQuest 275052434.
  8. Reviews of The Patient's Ordeal include:
    • Care, Norman S. (October 1992). "The Patient's Ordeal. William F. May". Ethics. 103 (1): 175–177. doi:10.1086/293486.
    • Humber, James M. (November 1991). "The Patient's Ordeal (review)". JAMA. 266 (17): 2471–2472. doi:10.1001/jama.1991.03470170163044.
    • Komp, Diane M. (January 1992). "The Patient's Ordeal By William F. May Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1991. 218 pp. $24.95". Theology Today. 48 (4): 496–500. doi:10.1177/004057369204800430.
    • Kane, Francis (1993). "The Patient's Ordeal. William F. May. Medical Ethics series, Daniel Smith and Robert Veatch, editors. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991". Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. 2 (3): 385–187. doi:10.1017/S0963180100004412.
  9. Reviews of Testing the Medical Covenant include:
  10. Reviews of The Ethics of Giving and Receiving include:
    • Lenkowsky, Leslie (September 2001). "Book Review: The Ethics of Giving and Receiving: Am I My Foolish Brother's Keeper?. By William F. May and A. Lewis Soens Jr. (eds.). Southern Methodist University Press, Dallas, 2000". Voluntas. 12 (3): 302–303. doi:10.1023/A:1012307804870. ProQuest 235925651.
    • Guglielmino, Janine E. (3 May 2001). "The Ethical Considerations of Giving". The Chronicle of Philanthropy.
  11. Reviews of Beleaguered Rulers include:
  12. Reviews of Testing the National Covenant include:
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