BIOGRAPHY
OF LEON R. KASS
Dr. Kass
is the Chair of the President's Council on Bioethics. He is
on leave from the University of Chicago, where he is Addie
Clark Harding Professor in the Committee on Social Thought
and the College. He is also Hertog Fellow in Social Thought
at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. Dr.
Kass was educated at the University of Chicago, where he earned
his B.S. and M.D. degrees and at Harvard where he took a Ph.D
in biochemistry. Shifting directions from doing science to
thinking about its human meaning, he has been engaged for
over thirty years with ethical and philosophical issues raised
by biomedical advance, and, more recently, with the ethics
of everyday life. His books include Toward a More Natural
Science: Biology and Human Affairs (1984), The Hungary
Soul: Eating and the Perfecting of Our Nature (1984),
The Ethics of Human Cloning (1998, with James Q. Wilson),
and Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity: The Challenge
of Bioethics (2002). The first report of the President's
Council, Human Cloning and Human Dignity: An Ethical Inquiry,
was issued in July 2002. It is available on the Council's
web site (www.bioethics.gov).
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