Harvard Gay Lecture
October 29, 2015
Penn President Amy Gutmann delivered the 2015 George W. Gay Lecture at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Gutmann’s presentation, “Why Care about Bioethics?,” was structured as a conversation between her and Harvard Provost Alan Garber. The George W. Gay Lecture is the oldest endowed lectureship at Harvard Medical School, and quite possibly the oldest medical ethics lectureship in the United States. Since its inception in 1917, many of the nation's most influential physicians, scientists, researchers and social observers have delivered the lecture, including Erich Fromm, Felix Frankfurter, Margaret Mead, Elizabeth Kübler Ross, E.O. Wilson, and Joshua Lederberg. Recent speakers have included Elie Wiesel, Marian Wright Edelman, Paul Krugman, Nicholas Kristof and Donald Berwick.
See also President Gutmann's Flickr Gallery
Photos Courtesy of Harvard Medical School.