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Gregory Stock, Ph.D., currently is Director of the Program on Medicine, Technology & Society at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine, where he is a Visiting Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavior. Dr. Stock is also a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Evolution and the Origin of Life. He has explored the larger evolutionary significance of humanity’s recent technological progress for many years and examined the subject at length in his book Metaman: The Merging of Humans and Machines into a Global Superorganism (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993). Following publication, he spent a year at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs looking specifically at the implications of recent breakthroughs in molecular genetics. Recently, he co-organized the symposium Engineering the Human Germline: An Exploration of the Science and Ethics of Altering the Genes We Pass to Our Children—the first major forum on human germline engineering (proceedings edited with John Campbell; New York: Oxford University Press, 1999). Dr. Stock received a Ph.D. in biophysics from Johns Hopkins University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He has published research papers on topics ranging from tissue regeneration to laser light scattering and has designed computer software for electronic banking networks. Recently, he has been exploring public policy issues associated with human germline engineering and other advanced reproductive technologies. In February 1999, he organized a roundtable at UCLA to identify the key milestones in developing clinical interventions to retard aging in humans. He has appeared on hundreds of radio and television shows, from Larry King Live to Good Morning, Australia, to discuss various aspects of technology and human values. Besides Metaman, Dr. Stock is also the author of The Book of Questions (New York: Workman Publishing, 1987), his exploration of values, which was a New York Times bestseller that has now sold over two million copies and been translated into 15 languages. Currently, he is working on a book entitled Redesigning Humans for Houghton Mifflin. |