Hilary Bok

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Hilary Bok is an associate professor of philosophy and the Luce Professor in Bioethics and Moral and Political Theory at the Johns Hopkins University. She earned her B.A. from Princeton University and her Ph.D. from Harvard. Before moving to Johns Hopkins, Bok taught at Pomona College in California.

Bok is the author of Freedom and Responsibility (1998), a Kantian critique of libertarian theories of free will. More recently, she has written extensively about stem cell research most notably in The Lancet.

Her parents are the well-known academics Derek Bok and Sissela Bok.

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• Bok's page at Johns Hopkins University
• Princeton University Press page on Freedom and Responsibility
• "Justice, ethnicity, and stem-cell banks" co-written with Kathryn Schill and Ruth Faden, The Lancet, July 10, 2004 v364 i9429 p118 retrieved 17 December 2005