Ethics Teaching in Higher Education
A concern for the ethical instruction and formation of students has always been a part of American higher education. Yet that concern has by no means been uniform or free from controversy. The centrality of moral philosophy in the undergraduate curriculum
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THE HASTINGS CENTER SERIES IN ETHICS ETHICS TEACHING IN HIGHER EDUCATION Edited by Daniel Callahan and Sissela Bok
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Ethics Teaching in Higher Education Edited by DANIEL CAl.LAHAN and SISSELA BOK The Hastings Center Hastings-on-Hudson, New York
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Main entry under title: Ethics teaching in higher education. (Hastings Center series in ethics) Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Ethics-Study and teaching (Higher)-United States. I. Callahan, Daniel, 1930II. Bok, Sissela. III. Series: Hastings Center. Hastings Center series in ethics. . 80-24002 170'.7'1173 BJ66.E84 e-ISBN-13: 978-1-4613-3138-4 ISBN-13: 978-1-4613-3140-7 DOl: 10.1007/ 978-1-4613-3138-4
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Contributors
Sissela Bok has taught medical ethics at the Radcliffe Institute and at the Harvard-M.I.T. Division of Health Sciences and Technology. She received her Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard University, and is the author of Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life.
Daniel Callahan is the founder and Director of The Hastings Center. He received his B.A. from Yale and his Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard. He has taught at Brown University, Temple University, and the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author or editor of 20 books and over 200 articles. His most recent books are Abortion: Law, Choice and Morality; Ethics and Population Limitation; and The Tyranny of Survival. Arthur L. Caplan is Associate for the Humanities at The Hastings Center, and Associate for Social Medicine in the Department of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University. He did his undergraduate work at Brandeis University, and received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University. He is the editor of The Sociobiology Debate, and the forthcoming Concepts of Health and Disease in Medicine.
Thomas Lickona is Associate Professor of Education at the State University of New York at Cortland. He recently held visiting appointments at Harvard and Boston Universities and served as Research Associate with the Danforth Foundation School Democracy Project. He received his Ph.D. in psychology from the State University of New York at Albany. His publications include the book Moral Development and Behav
