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Selected Honors, Positions, and Bibliography of Leon R. Kass Journal of Contemporary Health Law & Policy (1985-2015) Volume 20 Issue 1 Article 4 2003 Selected Honors, Positions, and Bibliography of Leon R. Kass Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.law.edu/jchlp Recommended Citation Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy, Selected Honors, Positions, and Bibliography of Leon R. Kass, 20 J. Contemp. Health L. & Pol'y xiii (2004). Available at: https://scholarship.law.edu/jchlp/vol20/iss1/4 This Dedication is brought to you for free and open access by CUA Law Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Journal of Contemporary Health Law & Policy (1985-2015) by an authorized editor of CUA Law Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. SELECTED HONORS, POSITIONS, AND BIBLIOGRAPHY OF LEON R. KASS* Born: Chicago, Illinois, February 12, 1939 Married: 1961, Amy Apfel Kass; 2 daughters, Sarah Mandelbaum (b. 1966), Miriam Hochman (b. 1971) EDUCATION 1954-58 The College, The University of Chicago; B.S. (Biology), with honors, 1958 1958-62 School of Medicine, The University of Chicago; M.D., with honors, 1962 1963-67 Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University; Ph.D. (Biochemistry), 1967. (Thesis sponsor: Konrad Bloch) POSITIONS HELD 1962-63 Intern (Medicine), Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 1967-70 Staff Associate, then Staff Fellow, then Senior Staff Fellow, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 1970-72 Executive Secretary, Committee on the Life Sciences and Social Policy, National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C. 1972-76 Tutor, St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland 1973-74 Independent research on "Concepts of Organism, Species, and Health-Ancient and Modern," supported by grant from National Endowment for the Humanities 1974-76 Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., Research Professor in Bioethics, The Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University The citations in this Bibliography conform to the Author's style. Journalof Contemporary Health Law and Policy [Vol. 20:xiii 1976-84 Henry R. Luce Professor of the Liberal Arts of Human Biology, The College and the Committee on Social Thought, The University of Chicago 1984-90 Professor in The College and the Committee on Social Thought, The University of Chicago 1990- Addie Clark Harding Professor in The College and the Committee on Social Thought, The University of Chicago (on leave, 2002-) (Also at The University of Chicago: Co-founder and Faculty Chairman, "Fundamental\s: Issues and Texts" (undergraduate degree program), 1983-present; Senior Fellow and Assistant Director, John M. Olin Center for Inquiry into the Theory and Practice of Democracy; Senior Fellow, MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics) 1991-92 William H. Brady, Jr., Distinguished Fellow, American & 1998-99 Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C. 2002- Hertog Fellow in Social Thought, American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C. HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS Phi Beta Kappa Alpha Omega Alpha National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellow, 1963-67 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow, 1972-73 Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, The University of Chicago, 1983 Fellow, National Humanities Center, 1984-85 Faculty, Telluride Association Summer Program, Chicago, 1986 Amoco Foundation Award for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Teaching, The University of Chicago, 1993 Doctor of Humane Letters honoris causa, The University of Dallas, 1997 Templeton Honor Rolls for Education in a Free Society, 1997-1998 Doctor of Humane Letters honoris causa, Spertus University of Jewish Studies, 2001 Doctor of Humane Letters honoris causa, Carthage College, 2002 Doctor of Science honoris causa, Yeshiva University, 2003 2003] Bibliography of Leon R. Kass Centennial Medal, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, 2003 Bradley Prize, Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, 2003 Gerhard Niemeyer Award for Distinguished Contributions to Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2003 NATIONAL AND PUBLIC SERVICE United States Public Health Service, Surgeon, 1967-69 United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation, member of Board of Governors, 1982-1988 National Council on the Humanities, National Endowment for the Humanities, Member, 1984-1991; Vice-Chairman, 1987-1989; Chairman, Jefferson Lecture Committee, 1987-1989; Chairman, Research Committee, and Chairman, Preservation Committee, 1988- 1991. President's Council on Bioethics, Chairman, 2002- PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS Medical Committee for Human Rights, member, 1965-69 Federation of American Scientists, member, 1967-73 American Association for the Advancement of Science, member, 1969-1993 The Hastings, Founding Fellow 1969-present; member of Board of Directors, 1969-1996 Shalem Center (Jerusalem), Board of Directors, 2001-present SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS 1. Kass, L.R., Brock, D.J.H., and Bloch, K. B3-Hydroxydecanoyl- Thioester Dehydrase. I. Purification and properties. J. Biol.Chem. 242:4418-4431, 1967. 2. Brock, D.J.H., Kass, L.R., and Bloch, K. B-Hydroxydecanoyl- Thioester Dehydrase. II. Modes of action. J. Biol. Chem. 242:4432-4440, 1967. 3. Kass, L.R., and Bloch, K. On the enzymatic synthesis of unsaturated fatty acids in Escherichia coli. Proc. Natl. Acad.Sci. USA 58:1168-1173, 1967. 4. Kass, L.R. The antibacterial activity of 3-Decynoyl-N- Acetylcysteamine: Inhibition in vivo of B-Hydroxydecanoyl- Thioester Dehydrase. J. Biol. Chem. 243:3323-3328, 1968. Journalof Contemporary Health Law and Policy [Vol. 20:xiii 5. Rosner, J.L., Kass, L.R., and Yarmolinsky, M.B. Parallel behavior of F and P1 in causing induction of lysogenic bacteria. Cold Spr. Harb. Symp. Quant. Biol. 33:785-789, 1968. 6. Kass, L.R. B-Hydroxydecanoyl-Thioester Dehydrase from Escherichia coli. Methods in Enzymology, Vol. XVI:73-80, 1969. 7. Kass, L.R., and Brock, D.J.H. Synthesis of Thioesters of N- Acetylcysteamine. Methods in Enzymology, Vol. XVI:696-698, 1969. 8. Kass, L.R., and Yarmolinsky, M.B. Segregation of Functional Sex Factor into Minicells. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 66:815- 822, 1970. PUBLICATIONS IN BIOMEDICAL ETHICS; SCIENCE AND HUMAN AFFAIRS; SOCIAL THOUGHT: 1. "A Caveat on Transplants," Outlook, The Washington Post Jan. 14, 1968. 2. "Problems in the Meaning of Death," Science 170:1235-1236, 1970. 3. "What Price the Perfect Baby?" Science 173:103, 1971 (Letter). 4. Review of FabricatedMan by Paul Ramsey, Theology Today 28:105-107, 1971. 5. "Death as an Event: A Commentary on Robert Morison," Science 173:698-702, 1971. 6. "The New Biology: What Price Relieving Man's Estate?" Science 174:779-788, 1971. 7. "Babies by Means of in vitro Fertilization: Unethical Experiments on the Unborn?" New England Journal of Medicine 285:1174-1179, 1971. 8. "Man's Right to Die," The Pharos of Alpha Omega Alpha 35 (2):73-77, 1972. 9. "Making Babies-The New Biology and the 'Old' Morality," The Public Interest, Number 26:18-56, Winter, 1972. 10. "New Beginnings in Life," in The New Genetics and the Future of Man, M.P. Hamilton, ed., Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publ. Co., 1972, pp. 13-63. 11. "Refinements in Criteria for the Determination of Death" (with colleagues from Task Force on Death and Dying), Journal of the American Medical Association 221:48-53, 1972. 12. "A Statutory Definition of the Standards for Determining Human Death: An Appraisal and a Proposal," (with Alexander M. Capron), University of Pennsylvania Law Review 121:87-118, 1972. 20031 Bibliography of Leon R. Kass 13. "Ethical Implications of Pre-Natal Diagnosis for the Human Right to Life," in Ethical Issues in Human Genetics, B. Hilton et al, eds., New York: Plenum Press, 1973, pp. 185-199. 14. "The Future of Man, the Organism: The New Biology," an essay published in 1974 in many newspapers as part of the National Endowment for the Humanities sponsored program, "America and the Future of Man: Courses by Newspaper." 15. "Averting One's Eyes or Facing the Music?-On Dignity and Death," Hastings Center Studies 2:67-80, 1974. 16. "Regarding the End of Medicine and the Pursuit of Health," The Public Interest, Number 40:11-42, Summer, 1975. 17. "Determining Death and Viability in Fetuses and Abortuses," Research on the Fetus, Appendix, The National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Publication No. (OS) 76-128, 1975. 18. "Teleology and Darwin's Origin of the Species: Beyond Chance and Necessity?" in Stuart F. Spicker, ed., Organism, Medicine, and Metaphysics, Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel, pp. 97-120, 1978. 19. "Ethical Issues in Human In Vitro Fertilization, Embryo Culture and Research, and Embryo Transfer," In Vitro Fertilization, Appendix, Ethics Advisory Board, U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, May 4, 1979. 20. "'Making Babies' Revisited," The Public Interest, Number 54:32-60, Winter, 1979. 21. "A Conversation with Dr. Leon Kass: The Ethical Dimensions of In Vitro Fertilization," an occasional paper published by the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Washington, D.C.: AEI Studies 242, 1979. 22. "Ethical Dilemmas in the Care of the Ill," Journal of the American Medical Association 244:1811-1816 (Part I: "What Is the Physician's Service?") and 244:1946-1949 (Part II: "What Is the Patient's Good?"), 1980. 23. "Ethical problems of the new biology," (Review of Life Manipulation: From Test-tube Babies to Aging by David G. Lygre), Chemical & Engineering News, September 15, 1980, pp. 47-48. 24. "Defining Healthy Functioning," Proceedings of the Institute of Medicine of Chicago 33 (4): (1980). 25. "Patenting Life," Commentary, December, 1981, pp. 45-57. Journalof Contemporary Health Law and Policy [Vol. 20:xiii 26. "Change and Permanence: Reflections on the Ethical-Social Contract of Science in the Public Interest," In Vitro 17:1091- 1099, 1981. 27. "Professing Ethically: On the Place of Ethics in Defining Medicine," Journal of the American Medical Association 249:1305-1310, 1983.
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