Gregory E. Pence is a professor of philosophy and bioethics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s school of medicine. His teaches the history of ethical issues in medicine since World War II. He wrote Recreating Medicine: Ethical Issues at the Frontier of Medicine (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000) and Who’s Afraid of Human Cloning? (Rowman & Littlefield, 1998). He is […]

Dr. Vanessa N. Gamble is a physician and medical historian who chaired the presidential committee on the legacy of the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study conducted by the U.S. Public Health Service from 1932-1972, which secured an apology from the government in 1997. She is a health policy and medical education consultant with 20 years’ experience as a […]

Tuskegee University’s National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care was established in January 1999 as a partial response to the apology of President Clinton for the United States Public Health Service Study on syphilis conducted at Tuskegee, Macon County, Ala., from 1932 to 1972. The center addresses ethical issues in science, technology and health, with […]

Hannah Decker is a University of Houston history professor and a scholar of German history. She teaches graduate seminars on Nazi Germany and has co-taught a course on the history of evil.

Jerome Rosenberg, University of Alabama psychology professor, teaches courses on the Holocaust that examine the dark side of human behavior and the nature of good and evil.

University of Alabama psychology professor Martha Crowther researches the role of spirituality across the life cycle. She is particularly interested in spirituality and health in older African-Americans.

Tim Murphy is an associate professor of religious studies at the University of Alabama. He teaches a course on modern atheism.

The Tuscaloosa Cooperative Association, in Tuscaloosa, Ala., is a new group exploring environmentally sustainable cohousing for the area. Charles Nuckolls, a professor of anthropology at the University of Alabama, says the group would like to create an American village.

The Alabama Policy Institute has produced a video on health care reform that warns of waits and rationing of care.