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Release
Biomedical Ethicist Joins
Board of Hastings Center
Contact: Karl Luntta (518) 437-4980
ALBANY, N.Y. (December 9, 2004) -- UAlbany
Professor Bonnie Steinbock has been elected
vice-chair of the Fellows Council and ex officio
member of the Board of Directors of the Hastings
Center in Garrison, New York. She was elected
a Fellow of the Hastings Center in 1986.
Steinbock, on the faculty of the department
of philosophy, is an authority on biomedical
ethics, particularly reproduction and genetics.
She is the co-editor, with John Arras and Alex
London, of Ethical Issues
in Modern Medicine (6th edition, 2002),
author of Life Before Birth:
The Moral and Legal Status of Embryos and Fetuses
(1992), and the editor of Legal
and Ethical Issues in Human Reproduction
(2002).
The Hastings Center is an independent, nonpartisan,
and nonprofit bioethics research institute founded
in 1969 to explore fundamental and emerging
questions in health care, biotechnology, and
the environment.
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