Boethics Program Series – Greenpeace vs. Monsanto on Genetically Modified Food: Whom to Believe?
Gregory E. Pence
Monday, 26 Jan 2004 at 8:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
Gregory E. Pence is Professor of Philosophy in the School of Medicine and Humanities University of Alabama at Birmingham. He teaches in the Philosophy Department, and Medical Ethics to first-year students in the School of Medicine. His books include Designer Food: Mutant Harvest or Breadbasket of the World? (named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2003), The Ethics of Food: A Reader for the Twenty-First Century, Re-Creating Medicine: Ethical Issues at the Frontiers of Medicine, Classic Cases in Medical Ethics: Accounts of the Cases that Shaped Medical Ethics, Who's Afraid of Human Cloning? and, with G. Lynn Stevens, Seven Dilemmas in World Religions. He edited Classic Works in Medical Ethics: Core Philosophical Readings and Flesh of My Flesh: The Ethics of Cloning Humans, and Brave New Bioethics.He graduated cum laude in 1970 (philosophy) from William and Mary, he earned a doctorate in 1974 from New York University.
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