From: J. Hughes (jjhughes1@earthlink.net)
Date: Thu Jul 12 2001 - 00:39:48 MDT
A transhumanist presence at this event would be a needed balance, given
the
speaker list.
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BEYOND CLONING:
Protecting Humanity from Species-Altering Procedures
Friday-Saturday, September 21-22, 2001
Conference Auditorium, George Sherman Union, Boston University
Sponsored by: Boston University School of Public Health, Health Law
Department
This conference addresses the need for policies to prevent the
alteration of
the human species through genetic engineering. It will discuss where
lines
should be drawn, lessons learned from existing policies and procedures,
new
national and international approaches and mechanisms for proscribing
species-altering procedures, and more.
Program:
Friday, Sept. 21, 1:00-7:00 pm:
· Where should we draw the lines?
Saturday, Sept. 22, 9:00 am - 5:30 pm:
· Existing national and international laws, regulations and
accords:
what works and what doesn't?
· Current controversies
· Lessons from the environmental, human rights and other
movements
· strategies for action
This conference should be attended by health and human rights
advocates,
scientists, physicians, policy makers, legislators, public health
professionals, environmentalists, reproductive health specialists,
philosophers, bioethicists, journalists and concerned citizens.
Speakers (partial list):
Lori Andrews, Director, Institute of Science, Law and Technology,
Chicago-Kent School of Law
George Annas, Chair, Health Law Department, Boston University School of
Public Health
Patricia Baird, Dept. of Medical Genetics, University of British
Columbia
Brent Blackwelder, President, Friends of the Earth
Alexander Capron, Director, Pacific Center for Health Policy and Ethics,
University of Southern California
Leonard Glantz, Associate Dean, Boston University School of Public
Health
Michael Grodin, Boston University and Global Lawyers and Physicians
Debra Harry, Executive Director, Indigenous People's Council on
Biocolonialism
Richard Hayes, Executive Director, Exploratory Initiative on the New
Human
Genetic Technologies
Andrew Imparato, President, American Association of People with
Disabilities
Rosario Isasi, Global Lawyers and Physicians (Peru)
Eric Juengst, Assoc. Professor of Biomedical Ethics, Cleveland-Case
Western
Reserve University;
Stephen Marks, FXB Center, Harvard School of Public Health
Max Mehlman, Director, Law-Medicine Center, Case-Western Reserve
Stuart Newman, Cell Biology and Anatomy, New York Medical College
Judy Norsigian, Executive Director and Co-Founder, Boston Women's Health
Book Collective
Evelyn Schuster, Human Rights and Ethics Program, University of
Pennsylvania
Susannah Sirkin, Deputy Director, Physicians for Human Rights
Allyn Taylor, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health
Early Registration: $140. For further information on program,
registration
and lodging, go to: http://www.bumc.bu.edu/www/sph/lw/website/index.htm
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