Gregory E. Pence, Ph.D.

Gregory E. Pence has been on the faculty of the University of Alabama at Birmingham since 1976. In addition to teaching philosophy courses, he instructs the university’s first-year medical students in medical ethics and directs the early medical school acceptance program.He has received the university’s highest award for teaching, the Ingalls Award. He is a graduate of the College of William and Mary (BA cum laude, 1970) and New York University (PhD, 1974).

Pence’s writings include Re-Creating Medicine: Ethical Issues at the Frontiers of Medicine (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000); Classic Cases in Medical Ethics: Accounts of the Cases That Shaped Medical Ethics (McGraw-Hill, 3rd edition, 2000); Who’s Afraid of Human Cloning? (Rowman & Littlefield, 1997); and Seven Dilemmas in World Religions, with G. Lynn Stevens (Paragon House, 1994). He has edited Classic Works in Medical Ethics: Core Philosophical Readings (McGraw-Hill, 1997) and Flesh of My Flesh: The Ethics of Cloning Humans (Rowman & Littlefield, 1998). Pence’s book about the ethics of food production, Designer Food: Mutant Harvest or Breadbasket of the World? (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002), was named an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice magazine. Pence edited an anthology on the same subject, The Ethics of Food: A Reader for the Twenty-First Century (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002). Pence’s newest book is Brave New Bioethics (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003).

Professor of Philosophy

Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham

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