Council on Bioethics
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The United States Council on Bioethics was established by George W. Bush in 2002. As of 2005 it had the following members:
- Dr. Leon Kass, committee chairman, bioethicist, professor, University of Chicago.
- Dr. Benjamin Carson, director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University
- Dr. Diana Schaub, chairman of Loyola College's political science department
- Dr. Peter Lawler, professor of government at Berry College.
- Dr. Stephen Carter, law professor, Yale University.
- Dr. Rebecca Dresser, law professor, Washington University.
- Dr. Daniel Foster, chairman of internal medicine department, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School.
- Dr. Francis Fukuyama, professor of international political economy, Johns Hopkins University.
- Dr. Michael Gazzaniga, director, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Dartmouth College.
- Dr. Robert P. George, professor of jurisprudence, Princeton University.
- Dr. Alfonso Gomez-Lobo, professor of metaphysics and moral philosophy, Georgetown University.
- Dr. Mary Ann Glendon, professor of law, Harvard University.
- Dr. William B. Hurlbut, consulting professor in human biology, Stanford University.
- Dr. Charles Krauthammer, columnist, The Washington Post.
- Dr. Paul McHugh, director of the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, Johns Hopkins University.
- Dr. Gilbert Meilaender, professor of Christian ethics, Valparaiso University.
- Dr. Janet D. Rowley, professor of medicine, molecular genetics and cell biology, and human genetics, University of Chicago.
- Dr. Michael J. Sandel, professor of government, Harvard University.
- Dr. James Q. Wilson, emeritus professor of management and public policy, University of California at Los Angeles.
Former Members
- Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn, professor, biochemistry and biophysics, University California at San Francisco.
- Dr. William F. May, emeritus professor of ethics, Southern Methodist University.