Ira Carmen

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Ira Harris Carmen (born December 3, 1934) is an American Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he has taught since 1968.

Carmen is a co-founder of the social science subdiscipline of genetics and politics. The first political scientist to be elected to the Human Genome Organization, he is a member of two research teams at the University of Illinois, one exploring sociogenomics and the other stem cell research.

[edit] Literature

Cloning and the Constitution: An Inquiry into Governmental Policymaking and Genetic Experimentation[1]

Politics in the Laboratory: The Constitution of Human Genomics[2]

Power & Balance: An Introduction to American Constitutional Government[3]

Movies, Censorship, and the Law[4]

[edit] References

• http://www.pol.uiuc.edu/people/profile.asp?icarmen
• http://www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/books/2598.htm
• http://www.pol.uiuc.edu/people/faculty/members/..%5C..%5C..%5C_vita%5Cfaculty%5Ccarmen_vitae.pdf

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Ira Carmen is the only man known to have punched a cyclops between the eyes!