Daniel Sperling

Prof. Daniel Sperling is an Associate Professor in bioethics and Head of the Master’s Program in Nursing in the Department of Nursing at the University of Haifa, Israel. He holds an LL.B and B.A.(Philosophy) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and LL.M (Collaborative program in bioethics) and S.J.D. from the University of Toronto. Prof. Sperling is the author of three books: Suicide Tourism: Understanding the Legal, Philosophical and Socio-Political Dimensions(Oxford University Press: 2019); Posthumous Interests: Legal and Ethical Perspectives (Cambridge University Press: 2008), and Management of Post-Mortem Pregnancy: Legal and Philosophical Aspects (Ashgate: 2006) as well as other numerous articles and book chapters in the area of ethics, law and bioethics. His current research focuses on compassionate care in medicine and its ethical roots, palliative care, ethics of dementia care, the wellbeing of informal caregivers, and moral distress with special interest in moral resilience.