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The Wiese Lecture in Medical Humanities
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Wednesday, Mar 05
 12:00PM - 1:00PM

Location Bornstein Amphitheater
Hosted by Center for Bioethics
Contact Info Pamela Galowitz
PGALOWITZ@PARTNERS.ORG
617-732-8590
URL: www.brighamandwomens.org/ethics/calendar.aspx
Event Type: Lecture
The Brigham and Women's Hospital Center for Bioethics Presents the Annual Wiese Lecture in Medical Humanities Should Medicine Make Us “Better than Well?” Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering Michael J. Sandel, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government, Harvard University
Professor Sandel has taught political philosophy at Harvard University since 1980. He is the author of Liberalism and the Limits of Justice (Cambridge University Press, 1982, 2nd edition, 1997; translated into eight foreign languages), Democracy's Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy (Harvard University Press, 1996), Public Philosophy: Essays on Morality in Politics (Harvard University Press, 2005), and The Case against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering (Harvard University Press, 2007). His writings also appear in general publications such as The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, and The New York Times. Professor Sandel teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in contemporary political philosophy, including "Ethics, Biotechnology, and the Future of Human Nature," "Markets, Morals, and Law," and "Globalization and Its Critics." A bagged lunch will be provided following the lecture. Please register in advance.
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