Presented By: The University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion
The Ethics of Designer Babies
Dr. Lydia Dugdale, guest speaker
Lydia Dugdale, MD
The Ethics of Designer Babies
What happens when parents can choose their child's traits? Should parents be able to select for intelligence, appearance, even personality? Are we on the cusp of enhancing health or creating a world of inequality and control? We will explore these urgent questions and more with Dr. Lydia Dugdale, MD, MAR. She is an incredibly accomplished physician and thinker who is recognized as the Dorothy L. and Daniel H. Silberberg Professor of Medicine at the Columbia University Medical Center, the Director of the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, and a Co-Director of Clinical Ethics at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
She edited Dying in the Twenty-First Century, is the author of The Lost Art of Dying and recently completed the manuscript for a forthcoming book on hope. She publishes widely, including in outlets such as The Free Press, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times.
Her voice is thought provoking, which is why she is the first repeat presenter for the Woll Family Speaker Series. You won't want to miss this.
The Ethics of Designer Babies
What happens when parents can choose their child's traits? Should parents be able to select for intelligence, appearance, even personality? Are we on the cusp of enhancing health or creating a world of inequality and control? We will explore these urgent questions and more with Dr. Lydia Dugdale, MD, MAR. She is an incredibly accomplished physician and thinker who is recognized as the Dorothy L. and Daniel H. Silberberg Professor of Medicine at the Columbia University Medical Center, the Director of the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, and a Co-Director of Clinical Ethics at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
She edited Dying in the Twenty-First Century, is the author of The Lost Art of Dying and recently completed the manuscript for a forthcoming book on hope. She publishes widely, including in outlets such as The Free Press, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times.
Her voice is thought provoking, which is why she is the first repeat presenter for the Woll Family Speaker Series. You won't want to miss this.
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ZoomOctober 30, 2025 (Thursday) 12:00pm
Meeting ID: 92594074321
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