Gregory Stock

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Gregory Stock (* 1949) is an American bioethicist and author.

Live and act

Stock studied biophysics at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore , where he received his bachelor's and master's degree (1971) and his PhD in 1977 . From 1985 to 1987 he studied economics at Harvard Business School , where he received his MBA in 1987 . After staying at various US universities and publishing some scientific papers on biophysics and developmental biology , he has been working at the University of California, Los Angeles since 1994 , where he has been director of the Program on Medicine, Technology and Society at the School of Medicine there since 1998 .

Stock examines the social, medical and economic effects of new technologies such as genetic engineering and bioinformatics . In April 2003 he was awarded the Kistler Book Prize for his book Redesigning Humans . He also became famous for his Book of Questions , which has been translated into more than ten languages ​​and sold more than two million times.

Works

  • Photon spectroscopy. An assay of bacterial motility . Dissertation, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore 1977.
  • The Book of Questions . Workman, New York 1987, ISBN 0-89480-320-4 (German: The book of questions . Krüger, [Frankfurt am Main] 1988, ISBN 3-8105-1860-3 )
  • The Kids' Book of Questions . Workman, New York 1988, ISBN 0-89480-631-9 (German: The question book for kids (= Ravensburger Taschenbuch, volume 1794). Maier, Ravensburg 1991, ISBN 3-473-51794-1 ); Revised and expanded edition, Workman Publishing, New York circa 2004, ISBN 0-7611-3595-2
  • The Book of Questions. Love and sex . Workman, New York 1989, ISBN 0-89480-619-X
  • The Book of Questions. Business, Politics, and Ethics . Workman, New York 1991, ISBN 1-56305-034-X
  • Metaman. The Merging of Humans and Machines into a Global Superorganism . Simon & Schuster, New York, NY 1993, ISBN 0-671-70723-X (also as Metaman. Humans, machines, and the birth of a global super-organism . Bantam Press, London [et al.] 1993, ISBN 0-593 -02075-8 )
  • as editor: Engineering the human germline. An exploration of the science and ethics of altering the genes we pass to our children . Oxford University Press, New York, NY [u. a.] 2000, ISBN 0-19-513302-1
  • Redesigning humans. Our inevitable genetic future . Houghton Mifflin, Boston [et. a.] 2002, ISBN 0-618-06026-X (also as Redesigning humans. Choosing our children's genes . Profile, London 2003, ISBN 1-86197-551-1 ; and as Redesigning Humans. Choosing our genes, changing our future . Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin, Boston 2003, ISBN 0-618-34083-1 )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Profiles. Gregory Stock . In: Foundation For the Future News . Volume 6, No. 1, Spring 2003, p. 3
personal data
SURNAME Stock, Gregory
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American bioethicist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1949