Ronald M. Green
- Eunice and Julian Cohen Professor for the Study of Ethics and Human Values, Dartmouth College
- Director, Ethics Institute, Dartmouth College
- Professor, Department of Community and Family Medicine at the Dartmouth Medical School
Contact Information
Phone: 603-646-1263
Fax: 603-646-9393
E-mail: Ronald.M.Green@Dartmouth.edu
A
member of Dartmouth's Religion Department since 1969, Professor Green
also directs Dartmouth's Ethics Institute, a consortium of faculty concerned
with teaching and research in applied and professional ethics. He is a
summa cum laude graduate of Brown University and received his Ph.D. in
religious ethics from Harvard University in 1973. In 1996 and 1997, Prof.
Green served as Director of the Office of Genome Ethics at the National
Human Genome Research Institute of the National Institutes of Health.
Prof. Green's research interests are in genetic ethics, biomedical ethics,
and issues of justice in health care allocation. He is the author of six
books and over one hundred thirty articles in theoretical and applied
ethics. His most recent book, The Human Embryo Research Debates: Bioethics
in the Vortex of Controversy, was published in 2001 by Oxford University
Press. In 2005, Prof. Green was named a Guggenheim Fellow.
Prof. Green
serves on the bioethics committee of the March of Dimes. In 1994 he was
a member of the Human Embryo Research Panel of the NIH, a blue ribbon
commission appointed to recommend policy for federal funding of research
on the preimplantation human embryo. In 1998-99 Prof. Green was president
of the Society of Christian Ethics. He served two elected terms as Secretary
of the American Academy of Religion, the largest professional association
of religious studies educators in the United States. He currently heads
the Ethics Advisory Board of Advanced Cell Technology, a company involved
in therapeutic cloning research. He recently completed his second three-year
term as Chair of the Religion Department. In 1980 he received the Dartmouth
Distinguished Teaching Award. This award, given to a single member of
the faculty annually, is voted upon by the entire graduating class.
Ronald M. Green C.V. (PDF format)
For more information on Ron's most recent book, Babies by Design: The Ethics of Genetic Choice (Yale University Press), click on this link:
http://yalepress.yale.edu/book.asp?isbn=9780300125467
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