Humanities Seminars for Medical Practitioners

FAIN: FP-10055-75

University of Chicago (Chicago, IL 60637-5418)
Leon R. Kass (Project Director: December 1974 to present)

To support a seminar for medical practitioners entitled "Human Being and Citizen" which will explore several fundamental questions with particular relevance to health practitioners which arise as a result of the advances in medical technology and biological research. The seminar will center on two questions: "What is a human being and what is its proper ordering function?" and "What is the proper relation between the technical expert and the political and social order.