At the Center

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The Czech Connection. Ten years ago, in the summer of 1991, we held in Prague the last of a series of bioethics conferences in central Europe. Supported by a grant from the Soros Foundation, we had met earlier in Pecs, Hungary, and in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Those meetings had been informative and productive--literally opening new worlds for both lecturers and participants--but for me the Prague meeting had a special importance. It was the beginning of a decade-long relationship, continuing to this day, with the Charles University Medical School in Prague, where I was later to be appointed an Honorary Professor.

I had first visited Prague in August of 1968, a month after the …