[Mitai-announce] Jonathan Glover speaking on Rights & Ethics in Scientific Research April 27

[Susan Frick]

Shall We Choose What Types of People Are Born:
Rights and Ethics in Scientific Research

Professor Jonathan Glover
Director, Centre for Medical Law and Ethics
King's College, University of London
Tuesday April 27, 2004
5:00-6:30 p.m.
Location: 66-110


Professor of ethics at King's College, University of London, Jonathan 
Glover also serves as the director of the Center for Medical Law and 
Ethics. In that role, he guides the center's teaching, research, and 
discussion of law and ethics in relation to medicine and health care. He 
currently is working on ethical issues in psychiatry and questions raised 
by the Human Genome Project.

He chaired a European Commission Working Party on Assisted Reproduction, 
which produced Ethics of New Reproductive Technologies: the Glover Report 
to the European Commission and was a Fellow of New College at Oxford 
University for many years.

Dr. Glover is the author of several books on ethics, including 
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140134794/thefutureofli-20>Causing 
Death and Saving Lives and an investigation of evil, entitled 
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0300087152/thefutureofli-20>Humanity: 
A Moral History of the Twentieth Century.

"This is an extraordinary book: brilliant, haunting and uniquely important. 
Almost 40 years ago a president read a best seller, and the world avoided a 
holocaust. I like to think that some of the leaders and followers of 
tomorrow will read 'Humanity.' -Steven Pinker

"Humanity is a . . . contribution to the immense labor of understanding 
some of the worst experiences humankind has ever had." - George Scialabba, 
Boston Globe

"There is much that is excellent in Humanity, especially Glover's lucid 
summary of the monstrosities of Stalinism--indispensable." -Shashi Tharoor, 
Los Angeles Times


Susan Frick
Program Assistant
Program on Human Rights and Justice
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
E38-277, 292 Main Street
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
Tel: 617 258 7614
Fax: 617 452 3962
Email: fricks at mit.edu
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