Professor of Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania and Director of its Center for Bioethics; author or editor of twenty-nine books and over 500 papers, including Smart Mice, Not So Smart People: An Interesting and Amusing Guide to Bioethics and the Penn Guide to Bioethics
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