He was the Leon Jaworski Professor of biomedical ethics and former Director of the Center for Ethics, Medicine and Public Issues at The Baylor College of Medicine[3] and Andrew Mellow professor of Humanities in the Department of Philosophy at Rice University.
[5] In 2002, Brody was considered as a candidate to be the fourth president of Yeshiva University.
[6][7] He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2001 and was a fellow of the Hastings Center.
Brody was among the first scholars in the field of applied ethics to write about abortion in the era following Roe v. Wade, including four articles in four different journals, culminating in his 1975 book Abortion and the Sanctity of Human Life: A Philosophical View.
[8] [9] He has been noted for his contributions to Jewish ethics, as one of a number of "professional bioethicists with medical training" who uses "Judaic resources and reasoning to illustrate and augment their arguments.