Leon R. Kass

University of Chicago

Leon R. Kass, M.D., Ph.D., is the Addie Clark Harding Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and the College at the University of Chicago and Hertog Fellow in Social Thought at the American Enterprise Institute. He was chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics from 2001 to 2005. His numerous articles and books include: Toward a More Natural Science: Biology and Human Affairs (Simon & Schuster, 1984), The Hungry Soul: Eating and the Perfecting of Our Nature (University of Chicago Press, 1994), The Ethics of Human Cloning (with James Q. Wilson) (AEI Press, 1998), Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar: Readings on Courting and Marrying (with Amy A. Kass) (University of Notre Dame Press, 2000), Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity: The Challenge for Bioethics (Encounter Books, 2002), and The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis (Simon and Schuster, 2003).