Hillary Bok
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{{Expand|date=November 2007}}'''Hillary Bok''' (born 1959) is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Bioethics and Moral & Political Theory at the [[Johns Hopkins University]]. She blogs as "Hilzoy" on the popular weblog [http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/ Obsidian Wings] and has guest posted at [[Washington Monthly]]'s Political Animal blog, [[Andrew Sullivan]]'s Daily Dish and elsewhere.
Dr. Bok received a B.A. in Philosophy from [[Princeton University]] in 1981 and her Ph.D. from [[Harvard University]] in 1991.
She served as Associate Professor of Philosophy at [[Pomona College]] from 1997 to 2000. Dr. Bok was also a Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow at the Princeton University Center for Human Values from 1994 to 1995. Her areas of specialization are [[bioethics]], [[moral philosophy]], [[free will]], and the works of [[Immanuel Kant]]. Dr. Bok is a faculty member of the Berman Institute of Bioethics.
Bok is the author of ''Freedom and Responsibility'' (1998), a [[Kantian]] critique of [[libertarian]] theories of free will. More recently, she has written extensively about [[stem cell research]] most notably in ''[[The Lancet]]''.
Her parents are the well-known academics [[Derek Bok]] and [[Sissela Bok]] and her maternal grandparents were the Swedish economist [[Gunnar Myrdal]] and the politician and diplomat [[Alva Myrdal]], both [[Nobel laureates]].
==External links==
* [http://web.jhu.edu/philosophy/Faculty/bok.html Bok's page at Johns Hopkins University]
* [http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/titles/6412.html Princeton University Press page on ''Freedom and Responsibility'']
* [http://www.bioethicsinstitute.org/mshome/?id=68 Bok's page at Berman Institute of Bioethics]
* "Justice, ethnicity, and stem-cell banks" co-written with [[Kathryn Schill]] and [[Ruth Faden]], The Lancet, July 10, 2004 v364 i9429 p118 retrieved 17 December 2005
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