Leon R. Kass

Leon R. Kass, M.D., Ph.D., is the Addie Clark Harding Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and the College at the University of Chicago and Hertog Fellow in Social Thought at the American Enterprise Institute. He was chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics from 2001 to 2005. Dr. Kass was educated at the University of Chicago where he earned his B.S. and M.D. degrees and at Harvard University where he took a Ph.D. in biochemistry.

THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM: Reading Genesis (The Free Press, 2003)

THE HUNGRY SOUL: Eating and the Perfecting of Our Nature (The Free Press, 1994)