Dr. Ben Hurlbut at HSS

 Center for Biology and Society grad students, faculty and affiliates had a large and notable presence at the recent History of Science Society (HSS) annual meeting held in Boston, MA.

Ben Hurlbut, Assistant Professor in the Center for Biology and Society, organized a panel on "Institutionalizing Ethics" at the 2013 History of Science Society meeting. The panel explored the changing place and status of ethics in science, medicine, and engineering during the second half of the twentieth century, examining how the explicit and implicit incorporation of ethics into the realm of science and engineering altered professional responsibilities and reshaped the roles of the scientist and engineer.

Hurlbut gave a paper entitled 'Reactive Institutions:Emerging Technologies and Public Bioethics from Recombinant DNA to Synthetic Biology."  Laura Stark of Vanderbilt University and Frazier Benya of The National Academy of Engineering, also gave papers.  (Mary Sunderland, who received a PhD in Biology and Society from ASU, was slated to give a paper, but was unable to attend at the last minute).  Harvard Professor and bioethicist Daniel Wilker commented.