Bioethicist to discuss stem cell research challenges
September 28th, 2007
Ethical Challenges in Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Oct. 30, 6 p.m.
Speed Art Museum auditorium, 2035 S. Third St. Parking is available for $3 in the nearby garage off Third Street.
Admission to the lecture is free and open to the public
Nationally recognized bioethicist Ruth Faden will present the University of Louisville’s 2007 Phi Beta Kappa lecture.
Faden will discuss the moral concepts and issues that underlie the political controversy regarding human embryonic stem cell research, as well as some of the ethical considerations that she says have not been much addressed in the public debate in the United States.
Her lecture is part of the Life of the Mind Series of ongoing, public events established during the centennial of UofL’s College of Arts and Sciences. Co-sponsors of the Faden lecture are the Phi Beta Kappa Association of Kentuckiana and Speed Art Museum.
Faden directs the Berman Institute of Bioethics at Johns Hopkins University, where she also is the Philip Franklin Wagley professor of biomedical ethics. She also is a senior research scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University.
She is co-author or co-editor of several books and articles about biomedical ethics and health policy. Titles include “A History and Theory of Informed Consent,” “AIDS, Women and the Next Generation” and “HIV, AIDS and Childbearing: Public Policy, Private Lives.”
Faden is a member of the Institute of Medicine and a fellow of the Hastings Center and the American Psychological Association. Her work on several national advisory panels has included leading the President’s Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments.
