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| Thomas H. Murray is president of the Hastings Center, a nonprofit
research institute devoted to issues of bioethics located in Garrison,
New York, just north of New York City. He is also one of the most
prominent U.S. experts on bioethics issues. With a total of more
than 200 publications, Murray has published extensively in peer-reviewed
scientific journals as well as popular media. He is co-editor of
the Encyclopedia of Ethical, Legal and Policy Issues in Biotechnology
(2000), and author of a recent book, The Worth of a Child.
He has testified before Congress on numerous occasions and served as a
consultant to government agencies and other organizations. He was
appointed by President Clinton to the National Bioethics Advisory Commission
and chaired the Commission's subcommittee on genetics. Other advisory
bodies on which he has served include the Working Group on Ethical, Legal
and Social Issues of the National Institutes of Health Center for Human
Genome Research and the NIH Human Embryo Research Panel.
Murray holds a B.A. from Temple University and a Ph.D. from Princeton
in social psychology. Prior to assuming his present position at the Hastings
Center, he served on the faculties of Miami University, the University
of Texas, and Case Western Reserve University. At Case-Western, he
held the Susan E. Watson Chair in Bioethics.
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The Hastings Center's home page. Testimony of Thomas H. Murray before the Committee on Science, Subcommittee on Technology, U.S. House of Representatives hearings on human cloning, March 5, 1997. Testimony of Thomas H. Murray before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, U.S. House of Representatives, March 28, 2001. Murray describes the report of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission on human cloning that was orginally presents in 1997. Summary of a seminar presented by Murray on "Ethics and Genetics: Issues at the Frontiers of Science and Technology, October 14-18, 1998 at the University of Oklahoma. "Future Health, Future Choices," by Kathleen Fackelmann, Science News Online (March 1, 1997). Murray is quoted extensively in this article. "The Confusion Over Cloning: An Exchange," by Harold T. Shapiro, James F. Childress, Thomas H. Murray. Reply by Richard C. Lewontin. The New York Review of Books (March 5, 1998). Requires subscription or a fee for one-time access. Interview with Thomas H. Murray on PBS - Healthcare Crisis: Who's At Risk? (November 2000). |
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