Sissela Bok

Bok received her B.A. and M.A. in psychology from George Washington University in 1957 and 1958, and her Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard University in 1970. She worked at Simmons University (1971–72), the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology (1975–82), Brandeis University (1985–92), and the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies at the Harvard School of Public Health (1993–2022). Bok was awarded the Orwell Award in 1978 for Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life. Bok was awarded the Courage of Conscience award on 24 April 1991 "for her contributions to peacemaking strategies in the tradition of her mother." == Books ==

• Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life (Pantheon Books, 1978; Vintage paperback editions, 1979, 1989, 1999). • Secrets: on the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation (Pantheon Books, 1982; Vintage paperback editions, 1984, 1989). • A Strategy for Peace: Human Values and the Threat of War (Pantheon Books, 1989; Vintage paperback edition, 1990). • ''Alva Myrdal: A Daughter's Memoir'' (Addison-Wesley, 1991; paperback edition 1992). • Common Values (University of Missouri Press, 1995; paperback edition 2002). • Mayhem: Violence as Public Entertainment (Perseus, 1998; paperback edition 1999). • Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide, with Gerald Dworkin and Ray Frey (Cambridge University Press, 1998). • Exploring Happiness: From Aristotle to Brain Science (Yale University Press, 2010). == References ==