Biomedical Ethics Expert to Give Talk

Biomedical Ethics Expert to Give Talk

RICE NEWS
April 8, 1999

Leon Richard Kass, a leading expert in medical ethics who has written on issues
surrounding transplants, death and in vitro fertilization, will lecture at Rice
on Thursday, April 15.

George Will, Newsweek columnist, described Kass as "our society’s most
skillful navigator in the area of biomedical ethics."

Kass, the Addie Clark Harding Professor in the College and the Committee on
Social Thought at the University of Chicago, will deliver the next and final
talk in the 1998-99 Rice University Lecture Series on Ethics, Politics and Society.
He will give his talk titled "Procreation or Manufacture? What’s Wrong
with Human Cloning" at 4 p.m. in McMurtry Auditorium of Anne and Charles
Duncan Hall. The lecture is free and open to the public. Seating is limited.

The lecture series is sponsored by the president, the provost, the dean of
the School of Humanities and the Department of Philosophy and supported by the
Office of the President and Office of the Provost.

For more information about the lecture series contact the Department of Philosophy
at (713) 527-4994.