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Leon Kass: when he chose his career, bioethics was a dead field. Today, it's at the heart of many of our society's most vexing controversies. And this physician-philosopher is the nation's leading voice on the subject.("Live" with TAE)(Interview)

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Leon Kass is a medical doctor, biologist, ethicist, philosopher, and teacher. After decades as a professor at the University of Chicago, he accepted responsibility for chairing President Bush's Council on Bioethics, a position he held from 2001 until last year. Today he is the Hertog Fellow in Religion, Philosophy, and Culture at the American Enterprise Institute.

A true renaissance man, Kass has written about subjects as wide-ranging as classical philosophy, the Bible, and bioethics. Among his books are The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis; Life, Liberty and the Defense of Dignity; and Toward a More Natural Science: Biology and Human Affairs.

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