AAAS Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion

Biography

Laurie Zoloth is a professor of Ethics and Humanities, and of Medicine, and of Religion at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, (Chicago) in the Program in Medical Ethics and the Humanities. From 1995-2002, she was Director of Jewish Studies at San Francisco State University in California. She is past president of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, and is currently the Chair of the Howard Hughes Bioethics Advisory Board, a member of NASA’s National Advisory Board, and the current vice-president of the Society for Jewish Ethics. She has served on numerous national board and committees, and is the author of Health Care and the Ethics of Encounter: A Jewish Conversation on Social Justice (University of North Carolina Press, 1999), and is the editor of The Human Embryonic Stem Cell Debate: Science, Religion and Policy (MIT Press, 2001); Margin of Error: The Ethics of Mistakes in Medicine (University Publishing Group, 2000), and Notes from a Narrow Ridge: Religion and Bioethics (University Publishing Group, 1999).