The Stem Cell Agenda: Four Perspectives
Four academics with specializations in bioethics and theology set forth their differing positions on stem cell research and the direction it should take. The panel includes Lisa Sowle Cahill, Boston College’s J. Donald Monan Professor in the theology department, author of Bioethics and the Common Good (Marquette University Press, 2004), and editor of Genetics, Theology, Ethics, and an Interdisciplinary Conversation (Crossroad, 2005); Hille Haker, associate professor of Christian ethics at Harvard Divinity School, former scientific coordinator of the European Network for Biomedical Ethics, and the coeditor of Ethics of Human Genome Analysis: European Perspectives (Attempto Verläg, 1993) and The Ethics of Genetics in Human Procreation (Ashgate, 2000); Josef Schuster, SJ, professor of moral theology at Sankt Georgen in Frankfurt, and the former rector of the Jesuit College there; and Thomas Shannon, professor of religion and social ethics at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and the editor of a four-volume series on bioethics.
The panel is introduced and moderated by theology professor James Keenan, SJ, who holds the Gasson Chair at Boston College.
Presenter(s): Lisa Sowle Cahill, Hille Haker, Josef Schuster, SJ, Thomas Shannon
Date: February 2, 2005
Location: Gasson Hall 305, Boston College
Sponsor(s): Gasson Chair; Boston College Theology Department
URL: http://frontrow.bc.edu/program/stem/
The information on this page is accurate as of February 2005