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 March
1999
The Choices
and Challenges Project was proud to introduce the following
renowned participants at our 1999 forum:
MODERATOR
Nancy L. Buc
Attorney
at Law, Buc & Beardsley, Washington, D.C.; former General Counsel,
U.S. Food and Drug Administration; member of major government panels
including the Office of Technology Assessment Advisory Committee
on New Developments in Biotechnology.
PANELISTS
Robert F. Murray, Jr.
Chief, Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics
and Child Health; Chair, Graduate Department of Genetics and Human
Genetics, Howard University School of Medicine, Washington, D.C.;
author of works on human genetics, including Genetic Variation
and Disorders in Peoples of African Origin; member of advisory
groups for the federal government and the National Academy of Sciences.
Diane
B. Paul
Professor, Department of Political Science, University of
Massachusetts at Boston; author of Controlling Human Heredity:
1865 to the Present, The Politics of Heredity: Essays on
Eugenics, Biomedicine and the Nature-Nurture Debate, and other
works on eugenics and human genetics.
Gail S.
Ross
Research
Director, High-Risk Infant Follow-Up Program, and Chief Psychologist
for the Child Development Program, the Early Intervention Program,
and other clinics, New York Hospital, N.Y.; author of publications
on infant and child development.
Anita
Silvers
Professor, Department of Philosophy, San Francisco State
University; author of books and essays on ethics and bioethics,
aesthetics, feminism, disability studies, and public policy including
Disability, Difference, Discrimination: Perspectives on Justice
in Bioethics and Public Policy; first recipient of the California
Faculty Association's Equal Rights Award.
LeRoy
B. Walters
Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. Professor of Christian Ethics, and
Director, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, Washington,
D.C.; past Chair, Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee, National Institutes
of Health; author of The Ethics of Human Gene Therapy and
other books and articles on ethics and medicine.
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