Hutton Honors College

"Babies By Design? The Ethics of Gene Enhancement"
The Matthew Vandivier Sims Memorial Lecture

• Thurs., Feb. 23, 2006
• 4 p.m.
• Chemistry 122
• Free and open to all

Ronald Green, a member of Dartmouth's religion department, is also the Eunice and Julian Cohen Professor for the Study of Ethics and Human Values, a professor in the Department of Community and Family Medicine at the Dartmouth Medical School, and the director of the Ethics Institute at Dartmouth College. In his distinguished career, he has written numerous books and articles and served on committees investigating ethical and medical issues, including the Human Embryo Research Panel of the National Institutes of Health and the Bioethics Committee for the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation. He has also served as director of the Office of Genome Ethics at the National Human Genome Research Institute of the National Institutes of Health. He is the author of The Human Embryo Research Debates: Bioethics in the Vortex of Controversy and such articles as "Religion and the Human Stem Cell Debate" and "Benefiting from 'Evil'; An Incipient Moral Problem in Human Stem Cell Research." His research interests include "genetic ethics, biomedical ethics, and issues of justice in health care allocation."

Please note the opportunity to attend a discussion lunch with Ronald Green on Thursday, February 23, from 12:30-2 p.m. Sign-up is required.

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