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Dr. Gregory Stock
Director
of the Program on Medicine, Technology, and Society UCLA School of
Public Health
George J. Annas
Edward R. Utley Professor of Health Law, Bioethics &
Human Rights and Chair of the Health Law Department at the School
of Public Health, Boston University
Presented
by the Arthur N. Rupe Great Debate Series at UCSB
Tuesday, May 6 / 7:30 P.M. / Free
UCSB Campbell Hall
Gregory Stock, Director of the Program of Medicine
Technology and Society, University of California at Los Angeles School
of Medicine, is the author of Redesigning Humans: Our Inevitable
Future (Houghton Mifflin, 2002). Best-selling author, scientist
and educator, Stock is a pioneering advocate of strong biomedical
research and pragmatic approaches to human genetic engineering. The
Wall Street Journal hails Stock as one of the few serious
scientists who publicly states that attempts to block cloning will
fail and that regulation should not be based on exaggerated fears
about the technology. Never intimidated by controversy, Stock is featured
as a regular guest on CNN, PBS, BBC and NPR. He has appeared on more
than 1,500 radio and television programs.
Stock holds a doctorate in biophysics from Johns Hopkins University
and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. A prolific author and
recognized authority on the impact of new technologies on society,
Stock has published many books and hundreds of articles. Among his
works is his #1 New York Times bestseller, The Book of
Questions, which poses 250 questions that invite people to explore
the most fascinating of subjects: themselves. This bestseller has
been translated into seventeen languages and has been expanded into
a four-book series. His newest book, Redesigning Humans: Our Inevitable
Genetic Future, analyzes how biotechnology will shape the human
future.
George J. Annas is the Edward R. Utley Professor of Health
Law, Bioethics & Human Rights, and Chair of the Health Law Department
of Boston University School of Public Health. He is also Professor
in the Boston University School of Medicine and School of Law. He
is the cofounder of Global Lawyers and Physicians, a transnational
professional association of lawyers and physicians working together
to promote human rights and health. He has degrees from Harvard College
(AB, economics '67), Harvard Law School (JD '70) and Harvard School
of Public Health (MPH '72), as well as an honorary Doctor of Humane
Letters from Salem State College ('94) which he was awarded for "his
scholarship, value analysis, and persistent advocacy for human rights."
Professor Annas has written more than 200 articles on health law and
bioethics. He wrote a regular feature on "law and bioethics"
for the Hastings Center Report from 1976 to 199l and a regular feature
on "Public Health and the Law" in the American Journal of
Public Health from 1982 to 1992. Since 1991 he has written a regular
feature on "Legal Issues in Medicine" for the New England
Journal of Medicine. He is the author or editor of twelve books
on health law, including The Rights of Patients (1975), Judging
Medicine (1987), and Standard of Care (l993), and a
play entitled Shelley's Brain, that has been presented to
bioethics audiences across the U.S. and in Australia. His most recent
books are Some Choice: Law, Medicine & the Market (Oxford,
1998), and Health and Human Rights (Routledge, 1999, coedited).
He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science, a member of the
Institute of Medicine, cochair of the American Bar Association's Committee
on Medical Practice and Medical Research (Science and Technology Section),
an honorary fellow of the American College of Legal Medicine, and
the founder of the Law, Medicine, and Ethics Program at Boston University.
He has also held a variety of government regulatory posts, including
Vice Chair of the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine,
Chair of the Massachusetts Health Facilities Appeals Board, and Chair
of the Commonwealth's Organ Transplant Task Force. He will be testifying
before the President’s Commission on Bioethics in March, 2003.
The Arthur N. Rupe Great Debate Series is presented by the UCSB College
of Letters and Science and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center.
This event is cosponsored by the UCSB Division of Mathematical, Life
& Physical Sciences, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine
Biology, Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
and College of Creative Studies. It is put on in partnership with
the UCSB Honors Program, Sansum Medical Research Institute, Santa
Barbara City College Continuing Education Division, and Santa Barbara
Cottage Health System Bioethics Committee.
For further information about the Arthur N. Rupe Great Debate Series
at UCSB, please visit http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/series/rupe/
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