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Joseph Fletcher ( 1905 - 1991 ) American professor who founded the theory of Situational Ethics in the 1960s , and was a pioneer in the field of Bioethics . Fletcher was a leading academic involved in the topics of Abortion , Infanticide , Euthanasia , Eugenics , and Cloning . Ordained as an Episcopalian priest, he later renounced his belief in God and became an Atheist . {Link without Title} Fletcher was a prolific professor, teaching, participating in symposia, and completing ten books, and hundreds of articles, book reviews, and translations. He taught ''Christian Ethics'' at Episcopal Divinity School , Cambridge, Massachusetts , and at Harvard Divinity School from 1944 to 1970 . He was the first professor of medical ethics at the University Of Virginia and co-founded the ''Program in Biology and Society'' there. He retired from teaching in 1977 . He served as president of the Euthanasia Society Of America (later renamed the Society For The Right To Die ) from 1974 to 1976. He was also a member of the American Eugenics Society . NOTABLE WORKS
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