{"id":10415,"date":"2012-01-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/thenewatlantis.com\/publications\/members-of-the-witherspoon-council"},"modified":"2020-09-26T14:05:22","modified_gmt":"2020-09-26T18:05:22","slug":"members-of-the-witherspoon-council","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/publications\/members-of-the-witherspoon-council","title":{"rendered":"Members of the Witherspoon Council"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Robert P. George<\/span>, J.D., D.Phil. (Co-Chairman)
McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Donald W. Landry<\/span>, M.D., Ph.D. (Co-Chairman)
Samuel Bard Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine, and Director of the Division of Experimental Therapeutics at Columbia University\u2019s College of Physicians and Surgeons; Director of the Medical Service at New York-Presbyterian Hospital\/Columbia University Medical Center<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael J. Birrer<\/span>, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Director of Gynecologic Medical Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center; Co-chair, National Cancer Institute\u2019s Gynecologic Cancer Steering Committee<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eric Cohen<\/span>
Executive Director, Tikvah Fund; Editor-at-Large, The New Atlantis<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Farr A. Curlin<\/span>, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine and Co-Director of the Program on Medicine and Religion at the University of Chicago<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Austin L. Hughes<\/span>, Ph.D.
Carolina Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina<\/p>\n\n\n\n

William B. Hurlbut<\/span>, M.D.
Consulting Professor, Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford Medical Center<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yuval Levin<\/span>, Ph.D.
Editor, National Affairs<\/i>; Hertog Fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gilbert C. Meilaender<\/span>, Ph.D.
Richard and Phyllis Duesenberg Professor of Christian Ethics, Valparaiso University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charles T. Rubin<\/span>, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Political Science, Duquesne University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Diana J. Schaub<\/span>, Ph.D.
Professor of Political Science, Loyola University Maryland<\/p>\n\n\n\n

O. Carter Snead<\/span>, J.D.
Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meir Y. Soloveichik<\/span>, Ph.D.
Associate Rabbi, Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun, New York City<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christopher O. Tollefsen<\/span>, Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy, University of South Carolina; Senior Fellow, Witherspoon Institute<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For further information, see member biographies<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since its founding, The New Atlantis has paid close attention to the ethical and political controversies arising from biotechnology \u2014 including especially the heated debates over stem cell research. We are pleased to devote the entirety of our Winter 2012 issue to a major report on the stem cell debates, a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the scientific facts and the moral, political, and legal stakes. This is the inaugural report of an important new body, the Witherspoon Council on Ethics and the Integrity of Science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","article_type":[16],"noteworthy_people":[],"topics":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/10415"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/10415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_type?post=10415"},{"taxonomy":"noteworthy_people","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noteworthy_people?post=10415"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=10415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}