Ron Dworkin

Associate Fellow

Anesthesiologist and Political Scientist

Ronald W. Dworkin, M.D., Ph.D, has practiced anesthesiology in a large medical center for thirty years. He also teaches political philosophy in the George Washington University Honors Program, and works as a Senior Fellow at Hudson Institute, where he heads up its Medicine, Society, and Culture project. He writes about medicine and society, and American culture and politics, for The Wall Street Journal, The American Interest, National Affairs, The New Atlantis, and other publications.

He is the author of several books about the world of medicine, and American culture. His newest book, Medical Catastrophe: Confessions of an Anesthesiologist, was released in 2017.

Medical Catastrophe: Confessions of an Anesthesiologist. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2017.

Artificial Happiness: The Dark Side of the New Happy Class. Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2006.

How Karl Marx Can Save American Capitalism. Lexington Books, 2015.

The Rise of the Imperial Self: America’s Culture Wars in Augustinian Perspective. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1996.