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Reservation deadline for University Forum is Sept. 12 3:28 p.m., Sept. 22, 2003--Members of the University community interested in attending the Sept. 17 University Forum with bioethicist Arthur Caplan are reminded that reservations must be made by sending e-mail to [provost-office@udel.edu] by Friday, Sept. 12. On Wednesday, Sept. 17, Caplan, who directs the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, will discuss issues in bioethic. The program, which includes a buffet luncheon, is scheduled from noon-1:30 p.m., in the Rodney Room of the Perkins Student Center. The forum is sponsored by the Office of the Provost. Caplan, who also serves as the Emmanuel and Robert Hart Professor of Bioethics and chair of the Department of Medical Ethics at Penn, is the author or editor of 25 books, including Who Owns Life?, Finding Common Ground: Ethics and Assisted Suicide, Ethics and Organ Transplants, Due Consideration: Controversy in an Age of Medical Miracles and When Medicine Went Mad: Bioethics and the Holocaust. He also has written more than 500 papers in refereed journals of medicine, science, philosophy, bioethics and health policy. A regular columnist on bioethics for MSNBC.com, he is a frequent commentator for National Public Radio, Nightline, CNN, Fox, CBS, The New York Times, TheWashington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer and many other media outlets. Caplan has served on a number of national and international committees, including as chair of the Advisory Committee to the United Nations on Human Cloning, as chair of the Advisory Committee to the Department of Health and Human Services on Blood Safety and Availability and on the special advisory panel to the National Institutes of Mental Health on human experimentation on vulnerable subjects. A member of DuPonts biotechnology advisory panel, he has consulted with many corporations and consumer organizations. Caplans honors include the McGovern Medal of the American Medical Writers Association and being named one of the 50 most influential people in American health care by Modern Health Care magazine. He also holds six honorary degrees from colleges and medical schools. To learn how to subscribe to UDaily, click here. |
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