Ammerman Campus Distinguished Lecture

 Spring 2005

Debate: Who's Afraid of Human Cloning?

Monday, April 25

11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

Shea Theatre

Ammerman Campus, Selden

Is it ethical to clone a human, "bio-engineer" plants and animals,

or "harvest" organs from human clones?

These questions will be debated by Dr. Gregory Pence and Dr. Nigel M. De S. Cameron.

        Dr. Pence graduated from the College of William and Mary cum laude in philosophy and earned his doctoral degree from New York University. For nearly 25 years, he has taught at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, where he is a professor and a medical ethicist in the School of Medicine and Department of Philosophy. His book Who's Afraid of Human Cloning? has been reviewed enthusiastically in over a dozen journals, magazines, and newspapers. Dr. Pence has been published in Newsweek, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. He has also written and edited two standard textbooks in medical ethics, published by McGraw-Hill Books: Classic Cases in Medical Ethics: Accounts of the Cases that Shaped Medical Ethics, Third and Fourth Editions, and edited Classic Works in Medical Ethics: Core Philosophical Readings.

        Dr. Cameron has published widely in his academic fields of theology and bioethics. 
He is the former provost and a distinguished professor at Trinity International University in Deerfield, Illinois. His other academic experience includes leadership of a Ph.D. program and serving as both department chair and associate dean. He was founding editor of the international journal Ethics and Medicine, now in its sixteenth year, and has authored and edited books on bioethics, including Death Without Dignity: Euthanasia in Perspective and The New Medicine: Life and Death After Hippocrates. Dr. Cameron's focus on the relationship of ethics and public policy has led to his frequent appearances on network television, including ABC's Nightline, PBS's Frontline, CNN, and CBS.

        Two free tickets per person are now available for Ammerman Campus students, faculty and staff with SCCC ID at the Information Booth in the Babylon Student Center. Beginning Monday, April 11, students, faculty and staff from the Grant and Eastern campuses may pick up tickets. Additional tickets and tickets for the general public will also be available at $5 each. The number of tickets is limited!