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Previous Volume 348:766-768 February 20, 2003 Number 8

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By Leon R. Kass. 313 pp. San Francisco, Encounter Books, 2002. $26.95. ISBN 1-893554-55-4.

Leon Kass is the Addie Clark Harding Professor on the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago and a founding fellow of the Hastings Center, the nation's first bioethics research center. Given these credentials, when Kass speaks, we should listen, particularly since August 2001, when President George W. Bush appointed him to chair the President's Council on Bioethics. It is not that one expects the administration to turn to this council for moral advice, but rather that Kass was chosen to vet its membership to ensure its compatibility with the President's political stands on the matters submitted to . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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