Leon Kass is a scientist trained as a biochemist, and an M.D. He is the author of the 1984 book Toward a More Natural Science and the more recent The Hungry Soul: Eating and the Perfecting of Our Nature. He is the Addie Clark Harding Professor of the College and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, and a Hertog Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. In August 2001 he was appointed to head the President's advisory task force on human cloning. For insight into his thinking on bioethical issues, see his 1979 article—reprinted in the Winter 2002 issue of The Public Interest— titled "The Meaning of Life - in the Laboratory."
 Leon Kass has also been featured on two MARS HILL AUDIO Conversations ("Bread and the Hungry Soul" and "Human Life, Human Dignity"), and an essay of his is part of the MARS HILL AUDIO Anthology, "The Ethics of Human Cloning." A short description of the latter is available here, while short descriptions of the former are listed here.
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Leon Kass, from the bonus track of the CD edition, on how new technologies have changed the assumptions many people have about their children (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, ) MHT-066.2.4
Leon Kass, on how various biotechnologies promise to fulfill certain legitimate human desires in illegitimate ways (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, ) MHT-066.1.1
Leon Kass, on why a commitment to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is not enough to protect human dignity (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, ) MHT-060.2.2
Leon Kass, on the deeper meaning of eating (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, ) MHT-012.2.3
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