Amy Laura Hall, Ph.D.

Amy Laura Hall is Assistant Professor of Theological Ethics at Duke University Divinity School and author of Kierkegaard and the Treachery of Love (Cambridge University Press: New York 2002). A 2004-2005 recipient of the prestigious Henry Luce Fellowship in Theology, Hall is currently completing a second book entitled Conceiving Parenthood: The Protestant Spirit of Biotechnological Reproduction, which documents the rise of medical-technological consumerism in the last century. Professor Hall serves on the Steering Committee of the Genome Ethics, Law, and Policy Center at Duke University. She has served on the Duke Medical Center's Institutional Review Board and as an Ethics Consultant to the V.A. Center in Durham. She has participated in bioethics projects at the Hastings Center and the Genetics and Public Policy Center of Johns Hopkins, as well as at many seminaries and divinity schools. A member of the Bioethics Task Force of the United Methodist Church, Hall has been asked to present her work on reproductive ethics to the World Council of Churches in Geneva, and to academic audiences in Switzerland, Denmark, and England. Her primary research work concentrates on bioethics at the beginning of life, but she also serves a leadership role with the Institute on Care at the End of Life.

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The 2004-05 Henry Luce III Fellows in Theology