Gary Bauslaugh
Independent — Duncan, BC
Gary Bauslaugh has a PhD in chemistry from McGill University, and has held many teaching and administrative positions in postsecondary institutions in Canada. He was VP of Instruction and Planning at what is now Vancouver Island University, and served for four years as CEO of a Provincial post-secondary educational planning and development agency in British Columbia. He has written and given presentations on many topics, and has had his work appear in many different publications, including scientific journals, The Skeptical Inquirer, The Humanist, and The Vancouver Sun (many op ed articles). He co-authored a chapter on evolution and intelligent design in a recent book called Universities at Risk (2008, James Lorimer and Co.). He was Editor of the magazine Humanist Perspectives (formerly Humanist in Canada) from 2003 to 2008. He also served for one year as President of the Humanist Association of Canada.
Dr. Bauslaugh will soon be publishing a book on two famous Canadian end-of-life cases. One case involves Evelyn Martens who, in 2004, was prosecuted on two counts of assisting suicide. The other is that of Robert Latimer, Canada's most famous case of mercy killing. The book, entitled The Wages of Mercy, examines how those committing certain acts of mercy elicit extraordinary hostility from a small but disproportionately influential segment of the population. This vocal criticism, in spite of widespread public support for Martens and Latimer, is likely a major reason for unsympathetic responses to their actionss by law enforcement officials and the judiciary. Dr. Bauslaugh is also editing an anthology of articles which will be published as Voices of the New Humanism.
Gary can be reached via e-mail at gbauslaugh [at] shaw [dot] ca
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