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Please join us as we launch Professor Frances Kamm's latest book Bioethical Prescriptions: To Create, End, and Improve Lives (Oxford University Press, 2013). The book showcases Professor Kamm's articles on bioethics as parts of a coherent whole, with sections devoted to death and dying; early life (on conception and use of embryos, abortion, and childhood); genetics and other enhancements (on cloning and other genetic technologies); allocating scarce resources; and methodology (on the relation of moral theory and practical ethics).
Panelists include:
- Frances Kamm, Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy; Professor of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts & Sciences, Harvard University; Former Senior Fellow, Petrie-Flom Center; Faculty Committee; Senior Scholar, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics
- Norman Daniels, Mary B. Saltonstall Professor of Population Ethics and Professor of Ethics and Population Health, Harvard School of Public Health; Faculty Associate, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics
- Thomas (Tim) Scanlon, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, Faculty of Arts & Sciences, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics
- Moderator: Christopher Robertson, Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Associate Professor, James E. Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona; Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics lab affiliate
This event is free and open to the public. For questions, please contact petrie-flom@law.harvard.edu or 617-496-4662.
Sponsored by the Petrie-Flom Center, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University, and the Countway Library of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, with support from the Oswald DeN. Cammann Fund.