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"Book of Questions" Author to Speak at University of Richmond

February 3, 2004

"How do we know which questions to ask?" is the question of the year for the University of Richmond's Quest program, which encourages extended campus discussions of a single important question.

Gregory Stock, author of the New York Times bestseller "The Book of Questions" will try to provide some answers beginning at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 11 in the Jepson Alumni Center.

Stock, director of the program on medicine, technology and society at UCLA's School of Pubic Health, will lecture on "Enhancing the Human: Genomics, Science Fiction and Ethics Collide." Call (804) 484-1545 to reserve seats. Admission is free and open to the public.

Stock's work at UCLA involves exploring new technologies poised to have large impacts on humanity's future and the shape of medical science.

His books include "Redesigning Humans: Our Inevitable Genetic Future" and "Metaman: The Merging of Humans and Machines into a Global Superorganism," as well as several other books of questions: "The Book of Questions: Business, Politics and Ethics," "The Book of Questions: Love and Sex" and "The Kids' Book of Questions."

Stock also is co-editor of "Engineering the Human Germline: An Exploration of the Science and Ethics of Altering the Genes We Pass to Our Children."

"The Book of Questions" has been translated into 17 languages." It poses 250 fundamental questions that invite people to explore their lives.