Leon Kass

Leon Kass is the Addie Clark Harding Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and the College at the University of Chicago (presently on leave). He is the author of several books, including, Toward A More Natural Science: Biology and Human Affairs; The Hungry Soul: Eating and the Perfecting of our Nature; Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity: The Challenge for Bioethics; and The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis. Trained as a physician and biologist, at the University of Chicago, Kass has taught on humanistic subjects for most of his career. He has also taken periodic government positions, most recently as chair of the President's Council on Bioethics.

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Professor - Committee on Social Thought - University of Chicago - Physician - Biologist - President's Council on Bioethics

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Kass's positions are rather bioconservative. He generally views biomedical innovations with extreme suspicion; life-extending technologies are, in his eyes, often dangerous, for they discourage careful thought and deliberate, valuable action. Kass strongly opposes embryonic stem cell research and has produced arguments against in vitro fertilization.{{dubious}}

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Bioconservative - Stem cell - In vitro fertilization

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