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Ethicist Discusses Intersection of Science and Politics Nov. 9

October 14, 2005

Physician and scholar Leon R. Kass, one of the nation's most thoughtful voices on bioethics and the difficult choices modern science presents to Americans, speaks on "The Intersection of Science, Politics and Ethics" Nov. 9 at the University of Richmond.

The Jepson Leadership Forum presentation is free and open to the public and will begin at 7 p.m. in the Jepson Alumni Center. Tickets are free but required. To reserve them, call (804) 298-8980.

The immediate past chairman of the President’s Council on Bioethics, Kass grapples with many of the complex moral, scientific and social questions that yield few easy answers. Kass deals forthrightly with the thorny issues raised by in vitro fertilization, stem cell research, cloning, genetic screening and genetic technology, organ transplantation, aging research, euthanasia, assisted suicide and other profound concerns created by modern medical practice and biomedical advances. How does scientific information enter into disputes about morality, ethics and public policy? How should leaders shape public debate in such complex areas of disagreement? He speaks as part of the forum series on The State of Public Debate.

Leon R. Kass, M.D. and 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.

A native of Chicago, Dr. Kass was educated at the University of Chicago where he earned his B.S. and M.D. degrees (1958; 1962) and at Harvard where he earned a Ph.D. in biochemistry (1967). Afterward, he conducted research in molecular biology at the National Institutes of Health, while serving in the United States Public Health Service. Shifting directions from doing science to thinking about its human meaning, he has been engaged for thirty-five years with ethical and philosophical issues raised by biomedical advance, and, more recently, with broader moral and cultural issues.