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Arthur Caplan
July 14, 2008
Arthur Caplan serves as the
Emanuel and Robert Hart Professor of Bioethics, Chair of the
Department of Medical Ethics and the Director of the Center for
Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
He is the author or editor of twenty-five books and over 500
papers in refereed journals of medicine, science, philosophy,
bioethics and health policy. His most recent book is Smart Mice
Not So Smart People (2006).
He has served on a number of
national and international committees including as the Chair
National Cancer Institute Biobanking Ethics Working Group; the
Chair of the Advisory Committee to the United Nations on Human
Cloning; the Chair of the Advisory Committee to the Department
of Health and Human Services on Blood Safety and Availability;
the special advisory committee to the International Olympic Committee
on genetics and gene therapy; the ethics committee of the American
Society of Gene Therapy; and the special advisory panel to the
National Institutes of Mental Health on human experimentation
on vulnerable subjects.
Dr. Caplan writes a regular
column on bioethics for MSNBC.com, and he is a frequent guest
and commentator on various media outlets. He is the recipient
of many awards and honors including the McGovern Medal of the
American Medical Writers Association; Person of the Year-2001
from USA Today, one of the fifty most influential people in American
health care by Modern Health Care magazine; and one of the ten
most influential people in America in biotechnology by the National
Journal.
Dr. Caplan was one of the season's
most popular speakers when he last lectured at Chautauqua in
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