Human Dignity and Bioethics: Essays Commissioned by the President's Council on Bioethics

Contributors

. Adam Schulman is Tutor at St. John's College, Annapolis, and Senior Research Consultant at the President's Council on Bioethics.

. F. Daniel Davis is Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Clinical Bioethics at Georgetown University, and Executive Director at the President's Council on Bioethics.

. Daniel C. Dennett is Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University.

. Robert P. Kraynak is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Freedom and Western Civilization at Colgate University.

. Alfonso Gómez-Lobo is Ryan Family Professor of Metaphysics and Moral Philosophy at Georgetown University, and a member of the President's Council on Bioethics.

. Patricia S. Churchland is University of California President's Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of California at San Diego.

. Gilbert Meilaender is Richard and Phyllis Duesenberg Professor of Christian Ethics at Valparaiso University, and a member of the President's Council on Bioethics.

. Holmes Rolston III is University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Colorado State University.

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. Charles Rubin is Associate Professor of Political Science at Duquesne University.

. Nick Bostrom is Director of the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford and Fellow of St. Cross College.

. Richard John Neuhaus is founder and editor of First Things.

. Peter Augustine Lawler is Dana Professor and Chair of the Department of Government and International Studies at Berry College, and a member of the President's Council on Bioethics.

. Diana Schaub, a member of the President's Council on Bioethics, is Professor of Political Science at Loyola College in Maryland and a member of the Hoover Institution Task Force on the Virtues of a Free Society.

. Leon R. Kass is 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, and was a member of the President's Council on Bioethics until 2007. He was chairman of the Council from 2002 to 2005.

. Susan M. Shell is Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Boston College.

. Martha Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago.

. David Gelernter is a National Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., and Professor of Computer Science at Yale University.

. Patrick Lee is Professor of Bioethics and Director of the Bioethics Institute at the Franciscan University of Steubenville.

. Robert P. George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University, and a member of the President's Council on Bioethics.

. Paul Weithman is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame.

. Daniel P. Sulmasy, O.F.M., is Professor of Medicine and Director of the Bioethics Institute of New York Medical College and holds the Sisters of Charity Chair in Ethics at St. Vincent's Hospital, Manhattan.

. Rebecca Dresser is Daniel Noyes Kirby Professor of Law and Professor of Ethics in Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis, and a member of the President's Council on Bioethics.

. Edmund D. Pellegrino is Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Medical Ethics and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University. He has been Chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics since 2005.

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