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In 2009 he delivered the Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities..
He was an inaugural recipient of the Bradley Prize in 2003.
Kass served on the National Council on the Humanities and as chairman of the President\'s Council on Bioethics.
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Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity: The Challenge for Bioethics
The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis ; and What So Proudly We Hail: The American Soul in Story, Speech, and Song (with Amy A.
His books include: The Hungry Soul: Eating and the Perfecting of Our Nature
Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar: Readings on Courting and Marrying (with Amy A.
John\'s College (Annapolis) and Georgetown University before returning to the University of Chicago, where for thirty-four years he was an award-winning teacher deeply involved in undergraduate education and committed to the big questions and the study of classic texts.
He taught at St.
Originally trained in medicine and biochemistry, he has been engaged for decades with ethical and philosophical issues raised by biomedical advance, and, more recently, with broader moral and cultural issues.
Kass is the Madden-Jewett Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and Professor Emeritus in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.
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