University of New England

Ethics scholar Walter Glannon to speak on the promises and pitfalls of intervening in the brain March 24th
 
PORTLAND, Maine - University of Calgary ethics professor Walter Glannon, Ph.D., will present “Neuroethics: The Promises and Pitfalls of Intervening in the Brain,” as the University of New England’s 2008 Crosley Lecture at 4:30 p.m. on Monday, March 24, 2008.

The lecture will take place in Ludcke Auditorium on UNE's Westbrook College Campus, 716 Stevens Avenue in Portland. This event is free, and open to the public.
 
Walter Glannon is Canada Research Chair in Medical Bioethics and Ethical Theory at the University of Calgary, where he is associate professor of philosophy and associate professor of community health sciences. Previously, he was assistant professor in the Centre for Applied Ethics at the University of British Columbia and clinical ethicist at the Children’s and Women’s Health Centre of British Columbia. Before that, he was assistant professor in the Biomedical Ethics Unit at McGill University and clinical ethicist at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal.

He is the author of Bioethics and the Brain and editor of Defining Right and Wrong in Brain Science: Essential Readings in Neuroethics. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy from Yale University.
 
The Crosley Lecture
The Crosley Lecture in Ethics has been given since 1984. The purpose of the lecture series is to bring distinguished scholars to the University of New England to address ethical issues in contemporary life.
 
The UNE Crosley Lecture is an annual endowed lecture created to honor the Rev. Marion Crosley and his wife, Mehitable Adelia Swift Crosley. The Rev. Crosley was a Universalist minister who lived in Portland from 1885 to 1889 and served on the board of the Westbrook Seminary, which later became Westbrook College, which merged with the University of New England in 1996.

For more information, contact Ronald Morrison at rmorrison@une.edu or (207) 602-2108.

(Press release posted March 10, 2008)