Dr. Carlos Perez-Mesa Lecture on Medical Humanities Presents
The Ethics of Biomedical Enhancement:
The Olympics, the Tour de France, and the Future of Humankind
Thursday, April 27, 2006 • 7:00 p.m.
Reynolds Alumni Center
DISTINGUISHED LECTURER
 Thomas
H. Murray, Ph.D. is president of The Hastings Center. Dr. Murray was
formerly the Director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics in the School of
Medicine at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, where he
was also the Susan E. Watson Professor of Bioethics.
He is a founding editor of the journal Medical Humanities Review, and is
on the editorial boards of The Hastings Center Report; Human Gene Therapy;
Politics and the Life Sciences; Cloning, Science, and Policy; Medscape General
Medicine; Teaching Ethics; and the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics.
He served as President of the Society for Health and Human Values, and of
the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. Dr. Murray has testified
before many Congressional committees, and is the author of more than 200 publications.
His most recent books are The Worth of a Child; Healthcare Ethics
and Human Values: An Introductory Text with Readings and Case Studies,
which he edited with Bill Fulford and Donna Dickenson; and The Cultures
of Caregiving: Conflict and Common Ground among Families, Health Professionals
and Policy Makers, which he edited with Carol Levine. He is the editor,
with Maxwell J. Mehlman, of the Encyclopedia of Ethical, Legal and Policy
Issues in Biotechnology.
Everyone is invited to attend this lecture, which is sponsored by the Dr.
Carlos Perez-Mesa Lectureship Endowment and the MU Center for Health Ethics.
For more information, contact the MU
Center for Health Ethics at (573) 882-2738 or healthethics@missouri.edu.
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