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Theme : Biotechnology and Politics
2008-2010 |
Lecture Series Spring 2009
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February 12: Francis
Fukuyama
Francis Fukuyama
is Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political
Economy at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International
Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University. He is also director
of the SAIS International Development program, and a member
of the President’s Council on Bioethics. His many books
include The End of History and the Last Man (1992) and Our Posthuman
Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution (2002). |
March 4: Leon R. Kass
Leon R. Kass, M.D., Ph.D., is the Addie Clark
Harding Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and the
College at the University of Chicago and Hertog Fellow in Social
Thought at the American Enterprise Institute. He was chairman
of the President's Council on Bioethics from 2002 to 2005. He
has written widely on the moral questions raised by modern science,
including his 1984 book Toward a More Natural Science: Biology
and Human Affairs and in (2002), Life, Liberty, and the Defense
of Dignity. His latest book, The Beginning of Wisdom, is a commentary
on the Book of Genesis. |
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April 22:
Virginia Postrel
Virginia Postrel is contributing editor to the Atlantic Monthly,
and former editor of Reason magazine. Her columns have appeared
in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles
Times, and many other publications. She donated a kidney to
a friend in 2006, and speaks frequently on the subject. She
has written two books, The Future and Its Enemies (1998) and
The Substance of Style (2004). |
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