The Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida

Center for Ethics, Public Policy,

and the Professions

presents

"The Black Stork: Can the New Genomics Escape the Old Eugenics?"

a public lecture

by

Dr. Rosemarie Tong

Distinguished Professor in Health Care Ethics

Director, Center for Professional and Applied Ethics

The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Thursday, March 13, 2003

Building 15, Room 1304

Noon-1:30 p.m.

Professor Tong is the author or co-author of Women, Sex, and the Law; Ethics in Policy Analysis; Feminist Thought: A Comprehensive Introduction; Feminine and Feminist Ethics; Controlling Our Reproductive Destiny: A Technological and Philosophical Perspective; Feminist Approaches to Bioethics; and Feminist Thought: A More Comprehensive Introduction. Her edited books include Feminist Philosophies: Problems, Theories, and Applications and Feminist Philosophy: Essential Readings in Theory, Reinterpretation, and Application. She has been a consultant to the ACLS, the Fulbright Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the North Carolina Medical Society, and various curricular programs involving women's studies and bioethics; and has received grants from the Sloan and Ford Foundations as well as the NEH. Recently, she was elected co-coordinator of the International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics. Her research interests include philosophy of law; ethics; private, professional, and public morality; bioethics; genetic and reproductive technology; foundations of feminist thought; and mind/body medicine. Currently, she is co-editing an anthology entitled Globalizing Feminist Bioethics: Women's Health Concerns Worldwide.