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LIFE: Bioethics
Bioethics issues are the subject of the 2003-2004 LIFE agenda. Committee
members --students and faculty--officially began the year's events with
a Bioethics Symposium featuring a panel
discussion on October 30, 2003. Panelists were Dr. Martin Stephens, Vice
President for Animal Research Issues at the Humane Society of the United States; Dr.
Kenneth Vaux, professor of theological ethics and director of the Center
for Ethics
and Values at Garrett Seminary of Northwestern University; Dr. Julie Goldstein,
section chief, clinical ethics at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center;
and Jeff Lyon, a Chicago Tribune editor, winner of a Pulitzer Prize for
Explanatory Journalism for a series on gene therapy, and author of two
books on gene therapy.
The day before, committee members and students in Psychology & Statistics,
Psychology AP, and Human Evolution/Human History classes were treated to a
private workshop on ethical issues in animal research led by one of the panelists,
Dr. Martin Stephens. A week and a half later, panelist Jeff Lyon returned
to Latin to lead a workshop for students in the Nazi Mind class on genetics
and retooling of human life issues.
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the year's keynote event on January 26, Dr. Peter Singer, Princeton University
Professor of Bioethics and director of Princeton's Center
for Human Values, will speak to the Upper School and eighth grade students
(read the Latin today article). Singer is sometimes lauded as a visionary,
sometimes criticized as dangerous as he explores a wide-ranging set of
moral and
ethical issues
relating to
animal rights, globalization, poverty, life and death, and national and
personal responsibility.
Singer explains that his work "is based on the assumption that clarity
and consistency in our moral thinking is likely, in the long run, to lead
us to hold better views on ethical issues."
To learn more about Dr. Singer and his work, see http://www.petersingerlinks.com.
Selected publications include:
Pushing Time Away: My Grandfather and the Tragedy of Jewish Vienna (2003)
One World: The Ethics of Globalization (2002)
Writings on an Ethical Life (2000)
A Darwinian Left (1999)
Rethinking Life and Death (1994)
How Are We to Live? Ethics in an Age of Self-Interest (1993)
Hegel (1982) (reissue 2001)
The Expanding Circle: Ethics and Sociobiology (1981)
Marx (1980) (reissue 2000)
Practical Ethics (1979) (2nd ed. 1993)
Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for our Treatment of Animals (1975) (2nd ed.
1990)
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