

Appel and Alice Appel and raised in Scarsdale, New York, and Branford, Connecticut. Education Īppel was born in the Bronx to Gerald B. Appel is the subject of the 2019 documentary film Jacob by director Jon Stahl.Īppel coined the term "whitecoat washing" to refer to nations using medical collaboration to distract from human rights abuses.

He is the director of Ethics Education in Psychiatry and an associate professor of psychiatry and medical education at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and he practices emergency psychiatry at the adjoining Mount Sinai Health System. Appel's novel The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up won the Dundee International Book Prize in 2012. He is best known for his short stories, his work as a playwright, and his writing in the fields of reproductive ethics, organ donation, neuroethics, and euthanasia. Appel (born February 21, 1973) is an American author, poet, bioethicist, physician, lawyer and social critic. Boyle, as does the ability to turn on a dime, now cutthroat, now huggable." Sue Ellis in Prick of the Spindle wrote of the collection that "every story is filled with all the pathos, humor, and intimacy readers will come to expect from this author".City University of New York, Queens ( MFA) Reception Ĭritic John Domini in The Brooklyn Rail noted of Appel's stories that "the rambunctious serendipity recalls T.C. "Ad Valorem", first published in Subtropics, was named a "Distinguished Mystery Story" in The Best American Mystery Stories of 2009. Īmong the stories in the collection, "Rods and Cones", which had previously appeared in The Southwest Review, was listed "Notable Nonrequired Reading of 2007" in The Best American Nonrequired Reading, and "Creve Coeur", which previously won The Missouri Review 's Editors Prize, was named as one of the "100 Other Distinguished Stories of 2007" by The Best American Short Stories.

Writing Today named it the best debut collection of 2014. It won the Hudson Prize in 2012 and was published by Black Lawrence Press. Scouting for the Reaper (2014) is the first collection of short stories by American author Jacob M.
