# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-fletcher
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:54:56.811Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-fletcher"
name: "Joseph Fletcher"
slug: "joseph-fletcher"
description: "Joseph Francis Fletcher was an American professor who founded the theory of situational ethics in the 1960s. Fletcher was a pioneer in the field of bioethics, and a leading academic proponent of the potential benefits of abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, eugenics, and cloning. He was ordained as an Episcopal priest, later identifying himself as an atheist."
tagline: "American academic, theorist of ethics (1905-1991)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1905-04-10"
deathDate: "1991-10-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.74
  momentum:             1.165048543689321
  historical:           5.283154666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Fletcher"
    title: "Joseph Fletcher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%81_%D9%81%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "جوزيف فليتشير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "چوزيف فليتشير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A1%B0%EC%85%89_%ED%94%8C%EB%A0%88%EC%B2%98"
    title: "조셉 플레처"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Fletcher"
    title: "Joseph Fletcher"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6283130"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump