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 Medical
Ethicist Discusses Genetics Research
Posted Thursday, March 16, 2006
Reported by Jake Weber
ALBION, Mich. – "The Stem Cell Controversy: Is There a Solution" is the hot topic
for University of Arkansas professor Chris Hackler, who gives a public
address at Albion College Thursday, March 30, at 7 p.m. in Bobbitt
Auditorium. Hackler will spend the week in Albion as the College’s 2006
Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow.
Hackler is the first and
current director of the University of Arkansas College of Medicine’s Division of
Medical Humanities. Holding a doctorate in philosophy,
Hackler has held leadership positions in the American Society for Bioethics and
the Association of Faculty in the Medical Humanities. He currently researches
and lectures on social issues in the use of genetic and reproductive
technologies, including the use of genetic technology to extend the human life
span.
“The Gerald Ford Institute is
very excited to be able to host one of the most significant contemporary
scholars in medical ethics today,” said Ford Institute director Tom Padgett.
“The moral and ethical implications of stem cell research, physician assisted
suicide, rationing of health care, the extension of the human life span, and the
removal of life supports not only grab the headlines, but are issues that we may
all face in our life times. We are pleased that Dr. Hackler will be here to
examine those very significant issues with us.”
Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellows
pair liberal arts institutions with thoughtful and successful practitioners who
spend a week in classes and informal discussions with students and faculty.
Fellows include government officials, business leaders, journalists,
environmentalists, and medical ethicists, and give students insight into the
social, political, and economic settings they will enter and illuminate the
roles they may play as professionals and informed citizens.
This event is free and open to
the public. For more information, contact the Albion College Gerald R. Ford
Institute for Public Policy and Service at 517/629-0368 or jhawsye@albion.edu.
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