Stem Cells, Therapeutic Cloning, and the Soulby Dr. Robert Pollack
October 17, 2001 Dr. Pollack discussed President Bush?s recent decision to authorize use of 60 stem cell lines in medical research. He also discussed questions of medical ethics posed by new approaches to the treatment of disease and infertility based on manipulation of the human genome. Dr. Pollack is Professor of Biological Sciences of Columbia University, where he is also Lecturer in Psychiatry and Director of the Columbia University Center for the Study of Science and Religion. He is also Senior Consultant to the Program of Dialogue on Science, Ethics and Religion of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Pollack is author of more than 100 research papers. Among his many awards are the Alexander Hamilton Medal from Columbia University and Distinguished Lectureship in the Humanities, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Pollack?s books on science, medicine and ethics include: Signs of Life: the Language and Meanings of DNA; The Faith of Biology and the Biology of Faith: Order, Meaning and Free Will in Modern Science; and The Missing Moment: How the Unconscious Shapes Modern Science.
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