University of Maryland - School of Public Policy

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	Robert Hunt Sprinkle, M.D., Ph.D.
	Associate Professor of Public Policy 4135 Van Munching Hall 301-405-0184 sprinkle@umd.edu Dr. Sprinkle, a tenured associate professor at the School, is a physician and public-policy scholar and the editor-in-chief of *Politics and the Life Sciences. He studied history at Dartmouth College and medicine at the University of Cincinnati. He trained clinically at the University of Virginia and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, and is a diplomate of both the American Board of Family Practice and the American Board of Pediatrics. As a member of the University of Texas faculty he directed a residency training program and served as an attending physician in three disciplines. He was later a Social Science Research Council MacArthur Foundation Fellow in International Peace and Security at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, where he earned his second doctorate, the Ph.D. He is the author of one book, Profession of Conscience: The Making and Meaning of Life-Sciences Liberalism* (Princeton University Press, 1994), a widely reviewed intellectual history of political thought in the life sciences. He is the author or coauthor of papers in clinical medicine, bioengineering, health policy, bioethics, environmental dynamics and policy, political history, moral philosophy, and biosecurity. He teaches courses on health policy, environmental policy, research methods, political behavior, moral-political analysis, and global development. RHS bibliography (annotated) through August 2005 Current courses and course readings