Since1976, Gregory E. Pence has taught in the Philosophy Department, and since 1977, has taught Medical Ethics to students in the School of Medicine. He also directs UAB's Early Health Professions Acceptance Program (EMSAP). In 1994, he won the Ingalls Award, UAB's highest award for teaching and in 2008, he won the President's Award for Excellence in Teaching. Graduating cum laude in 1970 (philosophy) from William and Mary, he earned a Ph.D. in 1974 from New York University.

Publications

Professor Pence's Professor Pence's writings include:

with McGraw-Hill Books:
Classic Cases in Medical Ethics: Accounts of the Cases that Shaped Medical Ethics Editions: first, 1990; 2nd, 1995; 3rd, 2000; 4th, 2004; fifth, 2008.
(ed) Classic Works in Medical Ethics: Core Philosophical Readings (1997).
The Elements of Bioethics (2006)

With Roman & Littlefield:
Who's Afraid of Human Cloning? (1997).
(ed) Flesh of My Flesh: The Ethics of Cloning Humans (1998).
Re-Creating Medicine: Ethical Issues at the Frontiers of Medicine (2000),
Designer Food: Mutant Harvest or Breadbasket of the World? (2002, a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2003).
(ed) The Ethics of Food: A Reader for the Twenty-First Century (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002).
Brave New Bioethics (2003, 35 essays by Pence previously published in newspapers and magazines)
Cloning After Dolly: Who's Still Afraid? (2005)

Other books include:
Seven Dilemmas in World Religions, with G. Lynn Stephens (Paragon House, 1994),
and
Ethical Options in Medicine, Medical Economics Books, 1980.

Recent talks

"The Ethics of Human Enhancement," Agnes Scott College, Atlanta, Georgia, February, 2008.

The Henry Smits Lecture, Truman State University, Kirksville, MO, November, 2008.

"How to Build a Better Human," Keynote talk, Mississippi Philosophy Association,Jackson, MS, November, 2008.

For speaking engagements, please contact Jodi Solomon Speakers of Boston MA.
http://www.jodisolomonspeakers.com/gregorypence.html.

Forthcoming talks

California Lutheran University, November 9, 2009, "Stem Cells, Little Persons, and Scientific Research" (12 pm) and "Organic or Genetically Modified Food - Which is Safer?" (4 pm).

 

 

Telephone Numbers

Dr. Pence's Office: 205-934-8922
Philosophy Department Office: 205-934-4805


Email

Dr. Pence's email: pence@uab.edu


Congressional Testimony

Dr. Pence's congressional testimony on cloning can be found here.(Pdf version)


Recent Public Writing

A World without Newspapers, The Birmingham News, March 29, 2009.

How to be happy in academe", The Chronicle of Higher Education, Jan 9, 2009.
(pdf version)

Free-Market Baby Making," Los Angeles Times, July 24, 2008.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-pence24-2008jul24,0,4139088.story

"Let's Think Outside the Box of Bad Clichés," My Turn, Newsweek, August 6, 2007.
http://www.todroberts.com/USF/cliches.pdf

"De-Regulating and De-Criminalizing Innovations in Human Reproduction," lead article, Cumberland Law Review, Winter, 2009.

Forthcoming Publications


"The Ethics of Cloning Humans," A Companion to Bioethics, 2nd ed., edited by Peter Singer, Blackwell, forthcoming 2009.


How to Build a Better Human: An Ethical Blueprint. forthcoming 2010.