Leon Kass

Leon Richard Kass is a bioethicist American who was born 2 as February as 1939 , is known for leading the effort to stop scientific research on embryonic stem cells and cloningwhile he was the director of the “President ‘s Council on Bioethics” in the period 2002 - 2005 . ¹

Kass earned degrees from SB and MD ( 1958 ; 1962 ) at the University of Chicago and in 1967 he earned a PhD in biochemistry from Harvard University . ² Later between 1972 and 1976 he taught at St. John’s College . ³ He is currently a member of the Presidential Council and is the Addie Clark Harding Professor at the College and the “Committee for Teaching Social Sciences” at the University of Chicago .

Leon Kass’s thinking about the cloning of human beings is that, according to him, he would depersonalize human reproduction, have significant influence on future generations, and eventually lead to the degradation of man. ⁴

His critics accuse Kass of having completed the Council with anti-abortionists and opponents of embryonic stem cell research, and rejected those people who disagreed with him, such as Elizabeth Blackburn . ⁵

Works

Kass has written numerous books, including:

• Leon Kass; James Q. Wilson (1998). The ethics of human cloning . American Enterprise Institute. ISBN 9780844740508 .
• Leon R. Kass (2006). The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis . University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226425672 .
• - (2002). Human cloning and human dignity: the report of the President’s Council on Bioethics . PublicAffairs. ISBN 9781586481766 .
• - (2004). Life, Liberty and the Defense of Dignity: The Challenge for Bioethics . Encounter Books. ISBN 9781594030390 .
• - (1985). Toward a more natural science: biology and human affairs . Free Press. ISBN 9780029183403 .
• - (1999). The hungry soul: eating and the perfecting of our nature . University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226425689 .
• Leon R. Kass; Amy A. Kass (2000). Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar: Readings on Courting and Marrying . University of Notre Dame Press. ISBN 9780268019594 .

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