Gregory E. Pence

EDUCATION

B. A. cum laude, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, 1970.

Ph. D., New York University, New York City, N.Y., 1974.

 

SPECIAL LECTURESHIPS:

Soundings Lecture, Castleton State College, VT, 2003.

Thornton Lecture, Alma College, Alma, Michigan, 2002.

Seidman Trust Lecture, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN, 2002.

Rutland Lecture, Clemson University, October 2001.

Hughes Memorial Lecture, West Liberty State College (debate: Ed

 Pellegrino, M.D.), W. Va., 2001.

Fetterman Memorial Lecture, Providence Hospital, Mobile, Al. 2000.

Rezendes Lecture, University of Maine, 2000.

Kennan Lecture, Transylvania University (debate: Glenn McGee), 1999.

 

KEYNOTE SPEAKER AT CONFERENCES AT:

Erlanger Hospital, Medical Ethics Conference, Chattanooga, TN. 1997.

LaRoche College, Center for Values Conference, Pittsburgh, Pa., 1999.

Fourth National Undergraduate Bioethics Conference, Notre Dame, 2001.

Department of Physiology Retreat, University of N. Carolina Chapel Hill,

 August, 2000.

Albany Law School,  Conference on Cloning, Biotechnology & Law, 2001.

Oklahoma State Univ., Conference on Ethics of Artificial Womb, 2002.

6th National Undergraduate Bioethics Conference, Texas A&M University,

March, 2003.

International Association of Culinary Professionals, The “Politics of Food”

(with New York Times food editor R. W. Apple, Jr.), Montreal, April.

Department of Neurobiology Public Conference, Northwestern University,

May (with Phillip Kitcher and law professor Lori Andrews).

Keynote speaker, World Transhumanist Association, Yale University, June

            (with Greg Stock, Alice Dregger, and Reason editor Ron Bailey).

“Is Reproductive Human Cloning Evil?” Conference on Reproductive Cloning and Human Nature, Lausanne, Switzerland, February 2004.

 

Other Special Talks:

Georgia Tech, Engineering Blue Skies Program, Atlanta, Ga., June, 2001.

Dartmouth College, NIH Summer Institute for Science Teachers, June 2000.

 

DIRECTOR, Medical Ethics Course, University of Alabama Medical School (required, letter-graded course for 165 first-year medical students; taught continuously since 1977).

 

DIRECTOR, BS/MD Program, UAB (a program for gifted high school

students with early admission to UAB medical school). 1998 to present.

 

BOOKS:

 

          Cloning After Dolly: Who’s Still Afraid? Rowman & Littlefield, 2004.

 

Classic Cases in Medical Ethics: Accounts of the Cases That Have Shaped Medical Ethics, fourth edition, McGraw-Hill, July 2003.

            (new chapters on embryonic cloning, reproductive cloning, world-

            wide AIDS, plus re-written chapters with updates & new sections).

 

          Brave New Bioethics, Rowman & Littlefield, 2003 (34 essays

and op-eds published over 28 years).

 

          Designer Food: Mutant Harvest or Breadbasket of the World?,

 Rowman & Littlefield, 2002 (Named a Choice Outstanding

Academic Title for 2003).

 

The Ethics of Food:  A Reader for the 21st Century

(ed.) Rowman & Littlefield, 2002.

 

Re-creating Medicine: Ethical Issues at the Frontiers of Medicine

             Rowman & Littlefield, 2000.

(Ethics of: medical computing; financial incentives for organ donation; paid assisted reproduction; parental choice in genetics; cloning; limits in medicine; patenting human genes, and  transforming bioethics)

 

Classic Cases in Medical Ethics: Accounts of the Cases That Have Shaped Medical Ethics, Third edition, McGraw-Hill, 2000.

                              Japanese translation, Shiego Nagaoka, Misuzu Shobo Publishing,

March 2000, Book I, April, 2001,  Book II, November 2001, Book III.

Korean translation forthcoming.

 

Chapter on Tuskegee Study selected for NIH clinical ethics course for young

Investigators.

 

Who's Afraid of Human Cloning?  Rowman & Littlefield, 1998.

                    (reviewed in British Medical Journal, New Scientist, San Francisco Chronicle,

                    American Library Association's BOOKLIST, Detroit Free Press, Library Journal,

                              Choice, Journal of the American Medical Association, Resolve: Newsletter

                              of Infertile Couples; the Gene Newsletter.)

 

                              Parts of which are reprinted in:

                              The Right Thing to Do, third edition, ed. James Rachels. McGraw-Hill, 1998.

                              Ethical Issues in Life and Death, 2nd ed., ed. Louis Pojman, Wadsworth,

                                             1999.

                              Japanese translation, Sogei Shuppan publishers, 2000

                              Egyptian translation, Sutour Publishing, Cairo, 2001.

                              French translation,  Frederique Delacourt, 2001.

 

    (editor), Flesh of My Flesh: Ethical Issues in Human Cloning

- A Reader, Rowman & Littlefield, 1998.

 

    (editor), Classic Works in Medical Ethics: Core Philosophical

    Readings, McGraw-Hill, 1998.

 

Seven Dilemmas in World Religions (with G. Lynn Stephens), Paragon House, New York, 1995.

 

Classic Cases in Medical Ethics: Accounts of the Cases That Have Shaped Medical Ethics, Second edition, McGraw-Hill, 1995.

- Three new chapters, extensive revisions, new updates.

 

Classic Cases in Medical Ethics: Accounts of the Cases That Have Shaped Medical Ethics, first edition, McGraw-Hill, 1990.

- Reviewed in The Hastings Center Report, Bioethics, Teaching Philosophy, Medical Humanities Review, and The Hemlock Quarterly.

 

Ethical Options in Medicine,  Medical Economics Books, 1980.

Chapter 4, "Rights and the Right to Medical Care," reprinted in Medical Ethics,  ed., N. Abrams and M. Buckner, MIT Press, 1983.

 

ARTICLES

 

“Putting ‘Science’ Back in Science Fiction: Cloning in Science Fiction,” Future Orbits, Volume I, 2, January 2002.

 

“Medical Ethics is Whatever You Say It Is,” Newsletter on Medical Ethics of the American Philosophical Association, Fall, 2001.

 

"Maximize Parental Choice," ed. Gregory Stock, Engineering the Human Germline, Oxford University Press, 2000.

 

"The Bioethicist and the Media," Journal of Women's Health, Vol. 3, No. 2, March, 1999.  Reprinted in the Princeton Journal of Bioethics, Volume II, Number 1, Spring, 1999, 47-52.

 

“Ethics, Cloning, and Persons,” Monash Bioethics Review, Volume 18, No. 1 (January 1999), 50-53.

 

"Will Cloning Harm People?" in Flesh of My Flesh: Ethical Issues in Cloning Humans, ed. Gregory E. Pence (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998).

 

Reprinted in The Right Thing to Do ed. James Rachels, McGraw-Hill, 3rd ed., 4th ed., 2002.

 

                        Reprinted in Louis Pojman, Ethical Issues in Life and Death, 2nd ed.,

Wadsworth, 1999.

 

"Parental Expectations and Cloning," in Newsletter on Medical Ethics of the American Philosophical Association, Fall, 1998.

 

"Thomas Aquinas and the Reasonableness of Belief in God," in Philosophy Then and Now, eds. G. Graham, T. Benditt, and S. Arnold, Blackwell, 1998.

 

"Ethical Theories and Medical Ethics," Classic Works in Medical Ethics, ed. Gregory E. Pence, McGraw-Hill, 1998.

 

"Why Physicians Should Help the Dying," lead essay in H. LaFollette (ed.) Practical Ethics, Blackwell, 1997.

 

"Dr. Kevorkian and Physician- Assisted Dying," Bioethics, January, 1995.

 

"Introducing Students to Medical Ethics," Medical Humanities Review VII, 1, 66-69 (January 1993).

 

"Clinical Ethics and the Family Physician," Editorial, Journal of the American Board of Family Practice, 6:1, January-February, 1993, pp. 80-82.

            - Reply to letters, December, 1993.

 

"To Live and Let Die," (book review essay), Hastings Center Report, May-June 1991, 34-35.

 

"Virtue Theory," in A Companion to Ethics, ed. Peter Singer, Basil Blackwell, 1990.

 

"AIDS in Context," Medical Humanities Review III: 2, 45-48 (July, 1989).

 

"Evaluative Assumptions and Facts about AIDS" in Ethics and AIDS: Biomedical Reviews, 1988, ed. R. Almeder and J. Humber, Humanities Press, 1989.

 

"Do Not Go Slowly Into that Dark Night: Mercy-Killing in Holland," American Journal of Medicine 84: 139-141 (January 1988).

 

            Reprinted in The Crisis in Health Care: Ethical Issues, ed. N.

               McKenzie,  Meridian Books, 1990.

 

"A New Parable about Life," Humane Medicine: A Journal of the Art and Science of Medicine II: 2, 134-135 (November, 1986).

 

"Ethical Issues in Trauma Care," chapter, Trauma Care: A Comprehensive Approach, ed. E. Howell et al, Little Brown, 1988: 887-902.

 

"Recent Work On Virtues," American Philosophical Quarterly 21:4, 281-297 (October 1984).

 

"Report of the President's Commission of 2010 on the Fall of Medicine," in Moral Choice and Medical Crisis, eds., L. Kopelman and J. Moskop,  (D. Reidel, 1985).

 

"Can Compassion Be Taught?" Journal of Medical Ethics IX:4, 189-191 (December, 1983).

 

"Children's Dissent to Research: A Minor Matter?" IRB: A Review of Human Subjects Research II:10, 1-4.

 

               Reprinted in Social Ethics, ed. J. Mappes & E. Zembaty, McGraw-Hill, 1985.

 

"Can Hume Answer Cromwell?" Canadian Journal of Philosophy  XIV:2, 505-523 (Fall, 1980).

 

"Towards a Theory of Work," Philosophical Forum X:1-3, 307-320, (Winter/Summer, 1978-1979).

 

"Between Cold Logic and Naive Compassion: Allowing Defective Babies to Die,"  Bioethics Digest II:7, 1-10 (November, 1977).

 

"Fair Contracts and Beautiful Intuitions," Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Special volume on Contractarianism, 137-152 (May, 1977).

 

"Critique of Hook's Theory of Rights," Journal of Critical Analysis III:3 (1974).

 

"Who Should Vote?" (Letter), Hastings Center Report, II:4, September, 1972, p. 6.

 

GENERAL WRITING

 

“Is President’s New Bioethics Council: Dead on Arrival?” Birmingham Post-Herald, January 24, 2002. Reprinted in the Chicago Tribune, 25 January 2002.

 

“Organ Donors Risk Health” Los Angeles Times 9 April 2002, B13; reprinted in the St. Paul Register and other papers across America.

 

“Food Activism: A Tree with Deep Philosophical Roots,” Philosopher’s Magazine, June 2002.

 

“Future Shifts Reproduction to New Level,” Sunday Philadelphia Inquirer, December 2, 2001, Philadelphia, Pa.

 

“Cloning is Just Another Way to Start a Family,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, November 27, 2001.

 

“Crafting a Careful Policy in Bioethics,” Chronicle of Higher Education, January 12, 2001.

 

“Don’t Criminalize Human Cloning,” Insight magazine, September, 2000.

 

 

Essays for Review and Comment Sunday Birmingham News:

 

            “Good Family Doctors Deserve More Thanks,” 3 January 2003.

            “Commission to Michael J. Fox: Wait 4 Years,” 18 July 2002 (with

Pooja Aggarwal).

            “Why Greenpeace Should See Green on GM Food,” 24 Feb. 2002.

            “Myths about Human Cloning,” 25 November 2001.

“West Wing and Norman Borlaug,” January 2001; reprinted in

 Des Moines Register, 18 January 2001.

            “A Hero for our Time: Norman Borlaug” (with Joyce Hsu) July, 2000.

            “Cloning Michael’s Embryos,” 4 June 2000.

            “AIDS and Africa,” January, 2000.

            "The Ethics of Cybermedicine," (with Jason Lott), 3 July 3 1999.

            "Does Size Matter?" (On a city's vision of itself), 30 August 1998.

            "World's Authority on Ants Marching to Birmingham," (on E. O.

                        Wilson's visit to UAB), March 1, 1998.

               "McCaughey Septuplets: God's Will or Human Choice?" 1 Dec. 1997.

               "Dolly and Cloning," March, 1997.

            "Discovering Drugs and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples," 1996.

               "A Prescription for Health Care Reform?" 26 September 1993.

            "Brave New Genetics," April, 1992.

            "Brave New Babies," February, 1992.

            "Ethics and AIDS, " January 1992.

            "As I Lay Dying," November 1991.

 

“Controversy’s Children: Cloning Represents No Threat to People,” Orange

 County (CA) News, Sunday, April 30, 2000.

Letter, “Peter Singer,” Letter, New England Journal of Medicine Summer, 1999.

 Letter, “Human Cloning,” New England Journal of Medicine 339:2,

1558, 19 November 1998.

"Happy 20th Birthday, Louise Brown," Atlanta Journal-Constitution

(25 July 1998, I8) and Knight-Ridder newspaper nationwide.

Essay for Sunday Tuscaloosa News,

            “In Case of Terminal Illness: Call Your Lawyer,” 15 November 1991.

            "Two Decades of Bioethics," November, 1992.

"Case Studies in Ethics of Teaching Philosophy," Teaching Philosophy,

1994, 1995.

"Who Gets Health Care? Make a List," The New York Times, June 14,

            1993.

"On the Road" (Guest Essay), Journal of the American Medical

             Association, 260, no. 13 (October 7, 1988), 1946.

"Reply to Cohen on Animals," Letter, New England Journal of Medicine 316: 552 (February 26, 1987).

"Medical Students Need Perspective, Hope," American Medical News,

            November 7, 1986, 54.

"Prevention Is So Much Spinach," My Turn, Newsweek, August 26,

            1985.

"Everyone's Entitled to Blame for Soaring Health Costs," Wall Street

            Journal, December 22, 1983, 24.

"The Value of a Life," New York Times, December 4, 1974, 23.

 

TEACHING AWARDS

UAB Alumni Society/Ingalls Award for Best Teaching in the Classroom, 1994.

 

Finalist, UAB Alumni Society/Ingalls Award for Best Teaching in the Classroom, 1993.

 

Finalist, UAB Alumni Society/Ingalls Award for Best Teaching in the Classroom, 1977.

 

BOOK REVIEWS

American Medical News, Hastings Center Report, American Journal of Psychiatry, Canadian Philosophical Reviews, Religious Studies, Medical Humanities Review, Bioethics, Ethics.

 

FELLOWSHIPS

NEH Summer Fellowship, Alasdair MacIntyre, Boston University, 1978.

NEH Summer Fellowship, Gregory Vlastos, U. Cal., Berkeley, 1981.

 

MEDICAL SCHOOL/UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SERVICE

          Provost’s Honors Committee, 2002-2003.

          UAB Hospital Ethics Committee, 2000-2002.

Search Committee, Dean of Medicine, 1997-1998.

School of Arts & Sciences Consolidation Committee, 1996.

Medical School Curriculum and Promotions Committee,  various times,

1978-1997.

Institutional Review Board (IRB), full member, 1978-1992; alternate,

1992-2001.

Animal Care and Use Committee, Charter Committee, 1986.

AIDS Committee, University Hospital, 1982-1986.

AIDS Committee, UAB Medical School, 1982-1987.

Termination of Care Committee, University Hospital, 1980.

 

General University Service

Many committees, often over several years, including: Search Committee, Dean of Arts & Humanities (2 years); “Three Schools or One?” Committee; Benevolent Fund; Grievance; Curriculum and Educational Policies (Chair); Faculty Affairs; Tenure and Promotion; Dean's Advisory, Benefits, and Lecture Series (Chair, 5 years).  Usual departmental duties, including Philosophy Club Advisor (several times), Library, Recruitment, etc.

 

Organizations