William B. Hurlbut,
M.D.
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1964-1968 |
Stanford University Bachelor of Sciences in Biology Graduated with Distinction and Departmental Honors |
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1968-1974 |
Stanford University School of Medicine Doctor of Medicine |
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1974-1977 |
Stanford
University Postdoctoral Fellowship Theology and Medical Ethics Tutorial with Robert Hamerton-Kelly Ph.D., Dean of the
Chapel, Stanford University |
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1977-1985 |
Independent
Theological Studies Tutorial with the Rev. Louis Bouyer of the Oratory,
Institut Catholiqué, Paris |
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2002 - present |
The President¹s Council on Bioethics
Washington, D.C. |
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9/01-9/04 |
Chairman and Principal Investigator ³Becoming
Human: Evolutionary Origins of Religious, Spiritual and Moral Awareness²
Interdisciplinary Faculty Project Templeton
Research Lectures Program Stanford
University, California |
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10/00 |
Conference Co-chair
³Becoming Human: Evolutionary Origins of Religious, Spiritual and
Moral Awareness²
Stanford University, California |
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10/99 |
Conference Co-chair
³Empathy, Altruism and Agape² Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Boston |
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11/98- present |
Chemical and Biological Warfare Working Group Center
for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University |
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Selected Recent and Forthcoming Publications
Books
S.G.
Post, L.G. Underwood, J.P. Schloss, W.B. Hurlbut (eds.); Altruism and
Altruistic Love: Science, Religion and Philosophy in Dialogue: Science
Philosophy and Religion in Dialogue; New York: Oxford University Press:
2002
Hurlbut,
W.B. and Durham, W.H. (eds.) Becoming Human: Evolutionary Origins of
Spiritual, Religious and Moral Awareness; Conference Proceedings 2002-2004
(in preparation)
Hurlbut,
W.B. and Durham, W.H. (eds.) Brain, Mind and Emergence; Conference
Proceedings 2003 (in preparation)
Scholarly Articles,
Book Chapters and Essays
Hurlbut,
W.B. ³The Meaning of Nature: From Biography to Biology² The New Atlantis: A
Journal of Technology and Society; No. 3, Fall 2003, pp. 47-66
³Statement on Human Cloning² essay in
Kass, L.R. (ed.) Human Cloning and Human Dignity: A Report by the
President¹s Council on Bioethics; New York: PublicAffairs (Perseus Books
Group), 2002
³Embodied,
Embedded, and Evolved² chapter in Hurlbut, W.B. and Durham, W.H. (eds.) Brain,
Mind and Emergence, Conference Proceedings (in preparation)
³Empathy,
Evolution and Altruism² chapter in Post S.G., Underwood, L.G., Schloss, J.P.,
Hurlbut, W.B. (eds.); Altruism
and Altruistic Love: Science, Philosophy and Religion in Dialogue; New
York: Oxford University Press: 2002
³On the Horizon in
Biotechnology² chapter in Furton, E.J. (ed.) What is Man, Oh Lord? The Human
Person in a Biotech Age: The Proceedings of the 18th Bishops
Workshop, The National Catholic Bioethics Center; Boston: National Catholic
Bioethics Center Press, 2002
Hurlbut,
W.B., Kalanathi, P. ³Evolutionary Theory and the Emergence of Moral Nature² Journal
of Psychology and Theology; 2001, Vol.29, No.4, pp.330-339
Hurlbut,
W.B. ³Mimesis and Empathy in Human Biology² Journal of Violence, Mimesis and
Culture: A Publication of the Colloquium on Violence and Religion; Vol.
4: Spring 1997, pp.14-25.
Hurlbut, W.B. "Cloning for
Biomedical Research," Impact of Science on Society; No.2,
2003: p. 5-9 (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
³From
Biology to Biography: The Science of the Human Person² chapter in Blankenhorn,
D., Benson, I.T. and O¹Hara, M. (eds.) Who are We?: Essays on the
Nature of the Human Person (in press) 2004
Other Writings
Hurlbut,
W.B. (ed.) Progress in Neurobiology Special Edition: Proceedings of Society
for Neuroscience Roundtable, Ethical Issues in the Neurosciences 2004
(in preparation)
Contributions
to Kass, L.R. (ed.) Biotechnology and Public Policy: A Report by the President¹s
Council on Bioethics (in preparation) 2004
Contributions
to Kass, L.R. (ed.) Monitoring Stem Cell Research: A Report by the
President¹s Council on Bioethics; Pre-publication version released 2004
Hurlbut,
W.B. ³Letter to the Editor: Terms of Engagement² Scientific American;
November 2003, p. 14
Contributions
to Kass, L.R. (ed.) Beyond Therapy: Biotechnology and the Pursuit of
Happiness: A Report by the President¹s Council on Bioethics; New York:
Harper Collins Publishers, 2003.
Contributions
to Kass, L.R. (ed.) Human Cloning and Human Dignity: A Report by the
President¹s Council on Bioethics; New York: PublicAffairs (Perseus Books
Group), 2002
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4/04 ³Patenting
Human Life: Clones, Chimeras and Biological Artifacts²
5th
International Bioethical Conference, Polish Academy of Sciences,
Warsaw, Poland
4/04 ³Patenting
Life²
Department of Philosophy
Colloquia, University of San Francisco, CA
3/04 ³Healing,
Enhancement and the Meaning of Nature²
Medical Grand Rounds, Tulane
University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA
3/04 ³The
Physician as Nature¹s Assistant²
Annual
Myron Madden Memorial Lecture, East Jefferson General
Hospital, New Orleans, LA
3/04 ³Patenting
Human Life: Clones, Chimeras and Biological Artifacts²
The Judeo-Christian Lecture
Series, the George Hitchings Terriberry Annual Memorial Lecture,
Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
3/04 ³Biotechnology,
Medicine and the Hippocratic Tradition²
Linn County Medical Society
Annual Meeting, Cedar Rapids, IA
3/04 ³Scientific
Progress and Public Policy²
Stem Cell Research: New
Legal and Medical Frontiers, Thomas Jefferson School of
Law, San Diego, CA
2/04 ³Biology
and Public Policy²
Brave
New Law: Human Reproduction and Biotechnology
Stanford
Law School, Stanford, CA
11/03 ³A
Debate on Bioethics² with Gregory Stock, PhD (UCLA)
The
Philanthropy Roundtable 2003 Annual Meeting; San Diego, CA
11/03 ³Beyond
Therapy: Ethics and the Future of Biotechnology²
French-American
Conference on Access to Pharmaceutical Innovation
French
Ministry of Health, European Parliament; Strasbourg, France
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10/03 ³Cloning,
Embryos and Ethics² (Keynote Speaker)
21st
Century COE Program: Construction of Death and Life Studies; The
University of Tokyo, Japan
10/03 ³Biology,
Spirituality and the Meaning of Medicine²
Symposium
on Life Science and the Crisis Facing Humanity
Awaji
Yumebutai International Conference Center, Hyogo, Japan
10/03 ³Ethics
and Emergence²
Reductionism
and Emergence: Implications for the Science/Theology Dialogue; University
of San Francisco, CA
9/03 ³Should
Human Cloning Be Banned?²
21st
Century Talks; Division of Foresight, Philosophy and Human Sciences of
UNESCO
United
Nations, Paris, France
9/03 ³Ethics
and Scientific Progress²
The
Face of the Future: Technosapiens?; The Center for Bioethics and
Culture; Oakland, CA
7/03 ³Stem
Cells, Embryos and Ethics² and ³The Quest for Technological Transcendence²
National
Conference on Medical Ethics; Cape Town, South Africa
5/03 ³The
Neurobiological Foundations of Human Moral Awareness²
Becoming
Human: Evolutionary Origins of Spiritual, Religious and Moral Awareness,
conference at Stanford University, CA
5/03 ³Biotechnology
and Public Policy²
Science
Technology and Security Seminar; Center for International
Security and Cooperation, Stanford University, CA
11/02 ³God,
Nature and the Cloning Wars²
Northern
California Association of Reproductive Biologists and Bay Area Reproductive
Endocrinologists Annual Meeting; Berkeley, CA
9/02 ³Biotechnology,
Religious Faith and the Future of Humanity²
Science
and Spirituality Along the Silk Road
UNESCO,
Université Interdisciplinaire de Paris, Science and the Spiritual Quest;
Almaty, Kazakhstan
8/02 ³Biotechnology,
Ethics and the Spiritual Traditions²
Science
and the Three Monotheisms in the 21st Century: A New Partnership?
Science
and the Spiritual Quest, Granada, Spain
8/02 ³Cloning,
Stem Cells and Public Policy²
Address to Members of
Parliament; The Parliament of Australia, Canberra Australia
8/02 ³Cloning,
Stem Cells and Ethics²
Conferences on Public Policy;
Melbourne and Brisbane, Australia and Launceston, Tasmania
6/02 ³Evolution
and the Emergence of Moral Awareness²
International
Conference on Faith and Reason: Convergence and Complementarity
Al Akhawayn University in
Ifrane, Morocco
6/02 ³Judeo-Christian
Theological Tradition and the Meaning of Nature²
Life
on a Threatened Planet: Genetic Controversy and Environmental Ethics
The
Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences; University of California at
Berkeley, CA
5/02 ³Ethical
Issues in Developing Life²
International
Congress on Embryology, Therapy and Society; Nijmegen, The
Netherlands
4/02 ³Ethical
Issues in CNS Repair²
International
Conference on Spinal Cord Injury
French Institute for Spinal
Cord Research; Deauville, France
4/02 ³Ethical
Implications of Stem Cell Research² and ³The Promise and Peril of Genetic
Medicine²
Panama
University Medical Center: 50th Anniversary Conference;
Panama City, Panama
3/02 ³Ethical
Issues in Stem Cell Technologies²
Archbishop
Quinn Colloquium on Catholic Social Teaching; The Archdiocese of San
Francisco, CA
3/02 ³Beyond
Therapy: A New Mandate for Medicine?²
Frank
Cataldo Memorial Lecture; University of Massachusetts Medical
Center, MA
11/01 Chair
and Organizer: ³Ethical Issues in the Neurosciences²
Roundtable
Plenary Session, Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting; San
Diego, CA
11/01 ³Medical
Practice in the Age of Genomics²
Conference
of the American Indian, Alaska Native Cancer Institute
Mayo Clinic Comprehensive
Cancer Center; Scottsdale, AZ
8/01 ³Human
Genome Research and its Implications for Indian/Indigenous Peoples²
Association
of American Indian Physicians; Albuquerque, NM
5/01 ³Bioethics
in the Era of Functional Genomics²
Frontiers
of Medicine: Human Genome-Human Being, Conference of the Scientific and Medical
Network; Imperial College, London
5/01 ³Evolution,
Empathy and the Image of God²
What
does it mean to be Human? Trinity Institute¹s 32nd
National Conference, NY
4/01 ³Shaping
the Future: Biotechnology and Our Children²
Conference
on Technology and Children; University of California at
Berkeley, CA
2/01 ³On
the Horizon in Biotechnology² (Keynote Address)
What
is Man Oh Lord: the Human Person in a Biotech Age Catholic
Bishops of North and South America; National Catholic Bioethics Center, Dallas,
TX
10/00 ³Medicine
in the Age of Biotechnology²
Address
to the Ministers of Health of Latin America, Spain and Portugal; Panama City,
Panama
10/00 ³Technologia
Genetica y sus aplicaciones (Genetic Technologies and their Applications)²
Salud
Actual: Realidades, Descubrimientos Y Perspectivas
Organizacion
Panamericana de la Salud: Panama City, Panama
9/00 ³Reimagining
Human Nature: Neuroscience, Cognitive Psychology and Spiritual Anthropology²
Chair and panel member, Shaping Globalization Plenary
session;
State
of the World Forum, New York, NY
1999 ³Empathy,
Evolution and Altruism²
Empathy,
Altruism and Agape: Perspectives on Love in Science and Religion
Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Boston, MA
1999 ³Empathy,
Evolution and Ethics²
A
Century of Nobel Prizes: Science and Humanism
UNESCO
and the Université Interdisciplinaire de Paris, France
1999 Discussant,
Genomic Studies on the International Space Station Workshop
NASA
Astrobiology Institute: Ames Research Center, CA
1998 Discussant,
Ethical Issues in Astrobiology
NASA
Astrobiology Roadmap Planning Workshop, Ames Research Center, CA
1997 ³The
Genetics of Human Appearance²
Fox
Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA
1996 ³Mimesis
and Empathy in Human Biology²
Colloquium
on Religion and Violence; Stanford University, CA
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1990-2004 |
Biology,
Technology and Human Life (formerly
Adam 2000: Images of Human Life in the Age of Biomedical Technology) Program
in Human Biology, Stanford University |
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1992-2004 |
Seminar
in Biomedical Ethics Program
in Human Biology, Stanford University |
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1994-2004 |
Ethical
Issues in the Neurosciences Program
in Human Biology, Stanford University |
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1997 |
Epidemics,
Evolution and Ethics
Seminar taught with Baruch Blumberg, M.D., Ph.D., Nobel
Prize 1976. Program
in Human Biology, Stanford University |
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1995-1996 |
Genes,
Peoples and Languages
Seminar in human genetic diversity taught with Luigi Luca
Cavalli-Sforza, M.D. Program
in Human Biology, Stanford University |
Courses and Seminars
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Personal Interests
Classical and Folk Guitar
19th Century American Landscape
Painting
Wilderness Backpacking and Snowshoeing
International Travel
Soccer: Former Stanford Varsity Soccer Team
player
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