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Laurie Zoloth he is a Charles McCormick Deering Professor of Teaching Excellence at Northwestern University, where she was the founding director of the Center for Bioethics, Science, and Society and the Brady Program in Ethics and Civic Life. She is professor of Bioethics and Humanities at the Feinberg School of Medicine and pwas president of the American Academy of Religion, former president of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, and former vice president of the Society for Jewish Ethics. Srofessor of religion and a member of the Jewish Studies faculty at Weinberg College of Arts and Science. In 2014 she was elected a Life Fellow at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge.
She has been an elected fellow of the Hastings Center since 2004, and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Narrative Ethics. Her book, Health Care and the Ethics of Encounter, on justice, health policy, and the ethics of community, was published in 1999. She was the principal investigator of the grant from the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Co_PI of a National Institute of Health Ethical, Legal and Socil Implications Project on The Human Genome and Identity; and chair of the Howard Hughes Medical Research Institute Ethics Advisory Board. She is also coeditor of four books: Notes From a Narrow Ridge: Religion and Bioethics, with Dena Davis; Margin of Error: The Ethics of Mistakes in Medicine, with Susan Rubin; The Human Embryonic Stem Cell Debate: Ethics, Religion, and Policy, with Karen LeBacqz and Suzanne Holland; and Oncofertility : Ethical, Social, Legal and Medical Issues. She is a member the NIH National Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee (RAC) and the Ethics Committee of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine as well as 3 NIH data safety monitoring boards, and Ethics committee for NASA, and national science foundation centers of excellence in both Synthetic Biology and Nanotechnology She received both ASBH’ s award for Service to the Field in 2007, and the NASA National Public Service Award for six years of outstanding service as the first ethicist on NASA’s National Advisory Board. In 2005 she was awarded the Graduate Theological Union’s Alumni of the Year award for service to the field of religion and social ethics. She was a founding board member and currently serves on the boards of the International Society for Stem Cell Research and the Society for Neuroethics. Professor Zoloth has served on the national advisory boards of the American Association of the Advancement of Science’s Dialogue on Science, Ethics and Religion; the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Working Group on Human Germ-Line Interventions and on Stem Cell Research Advisory Board and has testified for state and federal commissions on issues in emerging scientific research.
Supervisors: Karen LaBacqz and Baruch Brody
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F1000 - Post-publication peer review of the biomedical literature, 2010
Journal of Research Administration, Sep 22, 2011
Ethical, Legal and Social Implications ("ELSI") research has played an increasingly important rol... more Ethical, Legal and Social Implications ("ELSI") research has played an increasingly important role in scientific research. Tens of millions of dollars, many of which are public, are spent funding scientific research projects. Taxpayers are demanding that scientific advancement move forward, hand-in-hand with careful examination of the many ethical and social issues that are raised by the emerging sciences. It is not uncommon to find grants that include ELSI components. This raises a potential problem relating to the ability of ethicists to undertake serious, objective reflection and make independent, normative suggestions. If the Principal Investigator (PI) of the grant controls the funding of the ethics component and ELSI reflection suggests acts or omissions that would negatively affect the PI's scientific project, especially given the current economic climate in which reductions in ethics and humanities funding jeopardize other employment, ethicists may be placed in a position of having to decide between seriously jeopardizing their career, or ignoring the moral problem and compromising their professional integrity. One suggestion to avoid this conflict is to separate the funding of ELSI components from the scientific portion of the grant and to erect a secure firewall between the two. Other solutions certainly exist, and the purpose of this paper is to raise the issue to stimulate debate.
F1000 - Post-publication peer review of the biomedical literature, 2000
F1000 - Post-publication peer review of the biomedical literature, 2011
Philosophy and Medicine, 2008
A substantial portion of the developed world's population is increasingly dependent upon... more A substantial portion of the developed world's population is increasingly dependent upon machines to make their way in the everyday world. For certain privileged groups, computers, cell phones and PDAs, all permitting the faster processing of information, are commonplace. In these ...
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 2007
A substantial portion of the developed world's population is increasingly dependent on machines t... more A substantial portion of the developed world's population is increasingly dependent on machines to make their way in the everyday world. For certain privileged groups, computers, cell phones, PDAs, Blackberries, and IPODs, all permitting the faster processing of information, are commonplace. In these populations, even exercise can be automated as persons try to achieve good physical fitness by riding stationary bikes, running on treadmills, and working out on cross-trainers that send information about performance and heart rate.
Third-Party Reproduction, 2013
The Journal of law, medicine & ethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 2005
The Routledge Companion to Religion and Science, 2000
Qscience Proceedings, Mar 29, 2012
Nature, 2012
Studies of the human microbiome have revealed that even healthy individuals differ remarkably in ... more Studies of the human microbiome have revealed that even healthy individuals differ remarkably in the microbes that occupy habitats such as the gut, skin and vagina. Much of this diversity remains unexplained, although diet, environment, host genetics and early ...
Christian Bioethics, 2001
The efforts of Christian colleagues to articulate a clear framework of specific Christian moral v... more The efforts of Christian colleagues to articulate a clear framework of specific Christian moral values to assess clinical treatments are a necessary contribution to the debates about justice and resource allocation in health care. Such efforts not only make clear the way in which all such ...
Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 2015
The Ethics of Research Biobanking, 2009
... Page 5. The Alexandria Plan 177 not only organ specific, but that can be transplanted into pa... more ... Page 5. The Alexandria Plan 177 not only organ specific, but that can be transplanted into patients without immune rejection. ... If pure lines of a wide HLA type variety could be normalized, it is theorized that many successful, reasonably matched donations could be made. ...
Advances in Bioethics, 2000
Philosophy and Medicine, 2000
F1000 - Post-publication peer review of the biomedical literature, 2010
Journal of Research Administration, Sep 22, 2011
Ethical, Legal and Social Implications ("ELSI") research has played an increasingly important rol... more Ethical, Legal and Social Implications ("ELSI") research has played an increasingly important role in scientific research. Tens of millions of dollars, many of which are public, are spent funding scientific research projects. Taxpayers are demanding that scientific advancement move forward, hand-in-hand with careful examination of the many ethical and social issues that are raised by the emerging sciences. It is not uncommon to find grants that include ELSI components. This raises a potential problem relating to the ability of ethicists to undertake serious, objective reflection and make independent, normative suggestions. If the Principal Investigator (PI) of the grant controls the funding of the ethics component and ELSI reflection suggests acts or omissions that would negatively affect the PI's scientific project, especially given the current economic climate in which reductions in ethics and humanities funding jeopardize other employment, ethicists may be placed in a position of having to decide between seriously jeopardizing their career, or ignoring the moral problem and compromising their professional integrity. One suggestion to avoid this conflict is to separate the funding of ELSI components from the scientific portion of the grant and to erect a secure firewall between the two. Other solutions certainly exist, and the purpose of this paper is to raise the issue to stimulate debate.
F1000 - Post-publication peer review of the biomedical literature, 2000
F1000 - Post-publication peer review of the biomedical literature, 2011
Philosophy and Medicine, 2008
A substantial portion of the developed world's population is increasingly dependent upon... more A substantial portion of the developed world's population is increasingly dependent upon machines to make their way in the everyday world. For certain privileged groups, computers, cell phones and PDAs, all permitting the faster processing of information, are commonplace. In these ...
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 2007
A substantial portion of the developed world's population is increasingly dependent on machines t... more A substantial portion of the developed world's population is increasingly dependent on machines to make their way in the everyday world. For certain privileged groups, computers, cell phones, PDAs, Blackberries, and IPODs, all permitting the faster processing of information, are commonplace. In these populations, even exercise can be automated as persons try to achieve good physical fitness by riding stationary bikes, running on treadmills, and working out on cross-trainers that send information about performance and heart rate.
Third-Party Reproduction, 2013
The Journal of law, medicine & ethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 2005
The Routledge Companion to Religion and Science, 2000
Qscience Proceedings, Mar 29, 2012
Nature, 2012
Studies of the human microbiome have revealed that even healthy individuals differ remarkably in ... more Studies of the human microbiome have revealed that even healthy individuals differ remarkably in the microbes that occupy habitats such as the gut, skin and vagina. Much of this diversity remains unexplained, although diet, environment, host genetics and early ...
Christian Bioethics, 2001
The efforts of Christian colleagues to articulate a clear framework of specific Christian moral v... more The efforts of Christian colleagues to articulate a clear framework of specific Christian moral values to assess clinical treatments are a necessary contribution to the debates about justice and resource allocation in health care. Such efforts not only make clear the way in which all such ...
Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 2015
The Ethics of Research Biobanking, 2009
... Page 5. The Alexandria Plan 177 not only organ specific, but that can be transplanted into pa... more ... Page 5. The Alexandria Plan 177 not only organ specific, but that can be transplanted into patients without immune rejection. ... If pure lines of a wide HLA type variety could be normalized, it is theorized that many successful, reasonably matched donations could be made. ...
Advances in Bioethics, 2000
Philosophy and Medicine, 2000