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	What Does It Mean To Be Human? Religion and Bioethics. November 8-9, 2001, McCosh 50, Princeton University Campus Seating in McCosh Hall will be open on a first-come, first-served basis. No bags, food or drinks will be permitted. A simulcast will occur in McCosh HAll 28 and 46 and will be available on campus on Channel 7. The conference will also be broadcast live on Tiger Video and the Web at http://www.princeton.edu/webmedia. Further Information about: Webcasting Registration Parking Schedule of Events:
Thursday, November 8, 2001
4:30 PM	Session 1:	James F. Childress, University of Virginia: The Meaning of Being Human: Religious and Bioethical Disputes about Boundaries and Limits in Public Policy
	Respondent:	Peter Singer, Princeton University
	Session Chair:	Shirley M. Tilghman, Princeton University President

Friday, November 9, 2001
8:30 AM	Session 2:	Thomas H. Murray, The Hastings Center: Human Flourishing, Religion and Bioethics: Making Public Policy in the Face of Deep Disagreements Over What it Means to be Human
	Respondent:	Lee M. Silver, Princeton University
	Session Chair:	Harold T. Shapiro, Princeton President Emeritus

10:15 - 10:30 AM BREAK
10:30 AM	Session 3:	Gilbert Meilaender, Valparaiso University: Between The Beasts and God
	Respondent:	Jeffrey L. Stout, Princeton University
	Session Chair:	Eric Gregory, Princeton University

12:15 - 1:30 PM LUNCH BREAK
1:30 PM	Session 4:	John A. Robertson, University of Texas "Dominion Over Every Living Thing" and the Ethics of Reproductive Technology
	Respondent:	Carolyn Rouse, Princeton University
	Session Chair:	Robert Wuthnow, Princeton University

This conference has been generously funded by The Lilly Endowment.

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Conference Participants:
Lecturers:
James F. Childress is Edwin B. Klye Professor of Religious Studies, Professor of Medical Education, and Co-Director of the Virginia Health Policy Center at the University of Virginia. He is the author of numerous articles and several books in biomedical ethics, including Principles of Biomedical Ethics (with Tom L. Beauchamp), Priorities in Biomedical Ethics, Who Should Decide? Paternalism in Health Care, and Practical Reasoning in Bioethics (forthcoming). He is vice chair of the national Task Force on Organ Transplantation, and he has also served on the Board of Directors of the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), the UNOS Ethics Committee, the Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee, the Human Gene Therapy Subcommittee, the Biomedical Ethics Advisory Committee, and several Data and Safety Monitoring Boards for NIH clinical trials. In July 1996, President Clinton appointed him to the newly formed National Bioethics Advisory Commission. Childress is also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, as well as of the Hastings Center, and he has been the Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. Professor of Christian Ethics at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University (1975-79) and a Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago Divinity School and Princeton University. He received his B.A. from Guilford College, his B.D. from Yale Divinity School, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University.


Thomas H. Murray is the President of The Hastings Center in Garrison, New York, and the former Director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics in the School of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University, where he was the Susan E. Watson Professor of Biomedical Ethics. Dr. Murray's research interests cover a wide range of ethical issues in medicine and science, including genetics, aging, children, organ donation, and health policy. He is a founding editor of the journal Medical Humanities Review, and is on the editorial boards of Human Gene Therapy and The Physician and Sportsmedicine. He served as a presidential appointee to the National Bioethics Advisory Commission where he has acted as chair of the subcommittee on genetics. He is a member of the Committee on Ethics of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, of the Social Issues Committee of the American Society for Human Genetics, and of the Ethics Committee of HUGO, the Human Genome Organization. He is a past member and founder of the Working Group on Ethical, Legal and Social Issues to the National Institutes of Health Center for Human Genome Research, and Chair of its Task Force on Genetics and Insurance. He has testified before Congressional committees, and is the author of over 190 publications. His most recent book is The Worth of a Child (1996).


Gilbert Meilaender is the Phyllis and Richard Duesenberg Professor of Christian Ethics at Valparaiso University. He taught at the University of Virginia and at Oberlin College before coming to Valparaiso and currently serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Religious Ethics. His published work falls generally into the area of theological ethics, with a special interest in medical ethics. He is a Fellow of the Hastings Center. He also often writes more popular pieces for the magazine First Things and serves as a member of the journal's Editorial Board. His many publications include Theory and Practice of Virtue (1984), Body, Soul, and Bioethics (1995), and Things That Count: Essays Moral and Theological (2000).


John A. Robertson holds the Vinson and Elkins Chair in Law at the University of Texas Law School in Austin. He has written and lectured widely on law and bioethical issues. He is the author of two books in bioethics--The Rights of the Critically Ill (1983) and Children of Choice: Freedom and the New Reproductive Technologies (1994), as well as numerous articles on reproductive rights, genetics, organ transplantation, and human experimentation. He has served on or been a consultant to many national bioethics advisory bodies, and is currently Co-Chair of the Ethics Committee of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. Professor Robertson, who teaches criminal law and constitutional law, is best known for his pioneering work on the legal and ethical issues involved in control of biomedical technology, subjects upon which he is frequently called to testify before Congress. He came to Texas from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1981. He is currently working on legal and ethical issues surrounding human cloning, and recently published "Liberty, Identity, and Human Cloning" (Texas Law Review, 1997).

Princeton University Faculty Respondents:
Peter Singer is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University. He was educated at the University of Melbourne and the University of Oxford. In 1977, he was appointed to a chair of philosophy at Monash University in Melbourne and subsequently was the founding Director of that university's Centre for Human Bioethics. He was the founding President of the International Association of Bioethics, and with Helga Kuhse, founding co-editor of the journal Bioethics. He first became well-known internationally after the publication of Animal Liberation (1975). His other books include Democracy and Disobedience (1973); Practical Ethics (1979, 1993); Embryo Experimentation: Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues (1993); How Are We to Live? Ethics in an Age of Self Interest (1995); Rethinking Life and Death (1996); Companion to Bioethics (1998); and Writings on an Ethical Life (2000)


Lee M. Silver is a Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He is a member of the "Program in Science, Technology & Environmental Policy," the "Center for Health and Well-being," and the "Office of Population Research," at the Woodrow Wilson School. His first trade book, Remaking Eden: How Genetic Engineering and Cloning Will Transform the American Family, published in 15 languages, demystifies the science and technology of genetics and reproduction, and describes social and political complexities surrounding the natural parental desire to advantage their children. He has written numerous book reviews and Op-Ed pieces for the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time magazine, and the two most prominent international science journals, Science and Nature. He has also authored an undergraduate textbook in genetics, and a textbook for professionals on mouse genetics. He is co-editor-in-chief of "Mammalian Genome," the official journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society. In 1993, he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). In 1995, he received an unsolicited 10 year National Institutes of Health MERIT award. He has published over 180 scientific articles in the areas of genetics, evolution, reproduction, embryology, computer modeling, and behavioral science, and other scholarly papers on topics at the interface between biotechnology, law, ethics, and religion. He has been elected to the governing boards of the Genetics Society of America and the International Mammalian Genome Society. Dr. Silver was a member of the New Jersey Bioethics Commission Task Force formed to recommend reproductive policy for the New Jersey State Legislature, and has testified on reproductive and genetic technologies before U.-S. Congressional and New York State Senate committees.


Jeffrey L. Stout is Professor of Religion at Princeton University. His interests include religious and philosophical ethics, social criticism, political thought, modern theology, rhetoric, and the theory of interpretation. He is the author of The Flight from Authority: Religion, Morality, and the Quest for Autonomy (1987) and Ethics after Babel: The Languages of Morals and Their Discontents (1980; second ed. with a new postscript, 2001). He is currently at work on two projects: Democracy and Tradition: A Public Philosophy and a volume on natural piety. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on such topics as Religion and Morality, Christian Ethics and Modern Society, Religion and Contemporary Philosophy, and The Virtue of Piety. He has served on numerous University and Department committees and is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the Center for the Study of Religion. He received his B.A. from Brown University and his Ph.D. from Princeton University.


Carolyn Rouse is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University, where she is in her second year of teaching. Her areas of specialization include medical anthropology, visual anthropology, resistance, critical race theory, and consciousness. She has done extensive fieldwork with African American converts to Sunni Islam, as well as with children and adolescents who have long term illnesses and/or disabilities. In addition, she has produced, directed, and/or edited a number of documentaries including Chicks in White Satin (1994) and Purification to Prozac: Treating Mental Illness in Bali (1998). Currently, she is preparing for publication her manuscript entitled Engaged Surrender: Consciousness and Empowerment in the Conversion Experience of African-American Muslim Women (1998). Professor Rouse teaches courses in both Anthropology and African American Studies. These courses include medical anthropology, visual anthropology, political economy, and critical race theory. She received the Ph.D. from the University of Southern California.

Session Chairs:
Shirley M. Tilghman is the President of Princeton University. She has enjoyed a productive and prolific career pushing forward the frontiers of understanding of the mammalian genome. She grew up in Canada and obtained her B.Sc. at Queens University. As a postdoctoral fellow with Philip Leder at NIH, she participated in the cloning of the first mammalian gene, and showed that the coding sequences were non-contiguous in the genome and were interrupted by intervening sequences, termed introns. As an independent investigator she identified the H19 gene in mice, an early example of parental imprinting, and showed how this gene and its regulatory elements initiate and maintain parental imprinting. Since 1986 she has been the Howard A. Prior Professor of the Life Sciences at Princeton University. She is a Howard Hughes Investigator, Fellow of the Royal Society of London, and member of the US National Academy of Sciences. She is an outspoken advocate of the continuity between science and society, is involved in ELSI (Ethical, Legal and Social Issues of the Human Genome Project), chairs the Council on Science and Technology, and acts on the Advisory Council to the Director of the NIH and as a member of numerous scientific advisory boards. She has been on the editorial boards of Genes and Development, Molecular and Cellular Biology, the Journal of Cell Biology, and Nucleic Acids Research.


Harold T. Shapiro is President Emeritus of Princeton University and Professor of Economic and Public Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School. His fields of special interest in economics include econometrics, science policy, and the evolution of post-secondary education. He was a member of President Bush's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology, chaired the Institute of Medicine's Committee to Study Employer-Based Health Benefits, and currently serves as chair of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission. The editor (with former Princeton President William G. Bowen) of Universities and Their Leadership, his published works include Tradition and Change. A member of the Institute of Medicine and a fellow of the American Philosophical Society of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he has taught at the University of Michigan (in addition to serving as its president) and has been a research scientist at the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations and at the Institute of Public Policy Studies. His Ph.D. is from Princeton University.


Eric Gregory teaches in the Religion Department at Princeton. After graduating from Harvard College in 1992, he studied philosophy and theology for three years as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. In 1995, he entered the PhD program in religious ethics at Yale University and is completing a dissertation entitled, "With Charity for All? Augustine and the Ethics of Liberalism."His article, "Augustine and Arendt on Love: New Dimensions for Religion and Liberalism Debates" appears in the 2001 Annual of the Society of Christian Ethics. This Fall, he is teaching an introductory course on "Christian Ethics and Modern Society."


Robert Wuthnow is the Gerhard R. Andlinger '52 Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for the Study of Religion. He teaches sociology of religion and cultural sociology, specializing in the use of both quantitative and qualitative (historical and ethnographic) research methods. His recent books include Creative Spirituality: The Way of the Artist; After Heaven: Spirituality in America Since the 1950s; and Loose Connections: Joining Together in America’s Fragmented Communities. He has also edited the recent Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion. Currently he is directing a Pew-funded project on The Public Role of Mainline Protestantism in America since the 1960s. He has served as President of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. Registration

Information About Webcasting and Other Broadcasting:
Thanks to Media Services at Princeton University and Douglas M. Yeager of the National Technological University, this conference will be videotaped, webcast live at http://www.princeton.edu/webmedia, simulcast locally to Princeton residents on Cable Channel A11, and subsequently webcast at participating NTU campuses on Wednesday, November 14, 1:00 to 5:00 ET, and Friday, November 16, 1:00 to 5:00 ET. If you wish to learn more about viewing this conference on your campus, please contact Doug Yeager at Doug@ntu.edu or (970) 495-6414.

Parking Information:
The Princeton University Parking Office requests the following for conference registrants who wish to park on campus:
1) Please park in the eastern-most part of Lot 21 (near the corner of FitzRandolph and Faculty Roads). A printable campus map is available here; Lot 21 is J-6 on this map.
2) Please leave a note on the dashboard identifying yourself with the CSR conference
3) From the parking lot, walk over to McCosh 50. Signs will be posted to direct you.