New Topics New College – “Charting an Ethical Path for Clinical Medicine and Scientific Research”

Anita L. Allen ’70, prof. of law and prof. of philosophy, University of Pennsylvania Law School

 New College alumna Anita L. Allen is an expert on privacy law, bioethics, and contemporary values, and is recognized for her scholarship about legal philosophy, women’s rights, and race relations. She serves on the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues that advises the U.S. president on policies to ensure that scientific research, health care delivery and technological innovation occur in an ethical manner.  Professor Allen will discuss the commission’s findings relating to synthetic biology, human subject research, genetics and neuroscience and their implications for health care and research in the United States.

For reservations and information, call or order online. Series tickets are $75, and individual lectures are $15, with net proceeds funding scholarships and other resources for New College students.