Designing Our Descendants: The Promises and Perils of Genetic Modifications

List of Contributors

Contributors R. Michael Blaese, M.D., Scientific & Medical Director, Fund for Inherited Disease Research, Newtown, Pennsylvania Audrey R. Chapman, Ph.D., Director, Science and Human Rights Program, and Senior Associate for Ethics, Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, D.C. Cynthia B. Cohen, Ph.D., J.D., Senior Research Fellow, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. Ronald Cole-Turner, Ph.D., H. Parker Sharp Professor of Theology and Ethics, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Robert Cook-Deegan, M.D., Director, Center for Genome Ethics, Law, and Policy, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Kenneth W. Culver, M.D., Global Head, Translational Medicine, Novartis Oncology, Novartis Pharmaceutical Corporation, East Hanover, New Jersey Troy Duster, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, New York University, New York, New York; and Chancellor’s Professor, University of California, Berkeley, California Christopher H. Evans, Ph.D., Robert W. Lovett Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Center for Molecular Orthopedics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts John Fletcher, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Biomedical Ethics and Internal Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia Mark S. Frankel, Ph.D., Director, Scientific Freedom, Responsibility, and Law Program, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, D.C. Theodore Friedmann, M.D., Director, Program in Human Gene Therapy, University of California, San Diego, California Michele S. Garfinkel, Ph.D., Project Director, The Center for the Advancement of Genomics, Rockville, Maryland Eric Juengst, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Bioethics, Department of Bioethics, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio Albert Moraczewski, O.P., Ph.D., President Emeritus, Distinguished Scholar in Residence, and Staff Ethicist, National Catholic Bioethics Center, Boston, Massachusetts Pilar N. Ossorio, Ph.D., J.D., Assistant Professor of Law and Bioethics, University of Wisconsin Law School, Madison, Wisconsin Julie Gage Palmer, J.D., Lecturer in Law, University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, Illinois Erik Parens, Ph.D., Senior Research Scholar, The Hastings Center, Garrison, New York Bhavani G. Pathak, Ph.D., AAAS Science, Engineering, and Diplomacy Fellow, U.S. Agency for International Development, Washington, D.C. Bonnie Steinbock, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Philosophy, University at Albany/SUNY, Albany, New York Sondra Wheeler, Ph.D., Professor of Christian Ethics, Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington, D.C. Laurie Zoloth, Ph.D., Professor of Medical Humanities and Bioethics and of Religion, and Director of Bioethics, Center for Genetic Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois x List of Contributors ...