RE: Engaging Bioethics

From: Greg Burch (gregburch@gregburch.net)
Date: Fri Mar 09 2001 - 06:53:05 MST


On March 2, 2001 Robin Hanson wrote

-- Original Message --

>The discipline of bioethics has come under some severe criticism on
>this list. I have been invited to join a dozen prominent bioethicists
>at an intimate conference, and to publish my contribution.
>The conference is http://www.bgsu.edu/offices/sppc/bioethics.htm and
>my paper is below. It is not overtly extropian, but perhaps abstractly
>subversive of conventional bioethics.

I think we'd all be very interested in a report on this conference from
you Robin. I'd be eespecially interested in the general tone and whether
there were any well-defined general positions being advicated relative to
human genetic augmentation vs. "cure".

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