From: George Dvorsky (sentdev@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Jul 07 2003 - 21:31:49 MDT
Leading Bioethicists to "Debate the Future" in Toronto
Renowned Canadian bioethicist Margaret Somerville and controversial US
bioethicist James Hughes will address genetic engineering, cloning, life
extension and nanotechnology during a debate coinciding with the 61st World
Science Fiction Convention, held this year in Toronto
Should we genetically engineer a better human mind and body? Should we use
cloning to reproduce? Should we strive for radical life extension? Should we
seek the benefits of nanotechnology despite the risks?
On Friday, August 29, 2003, members of the public can learn more about these
issues at "Debating the Future: Bioethics from Science Fiction to Science
Fact," an event organized by Betterhumans that is being held at the J.J.R.
MacLeod Auditorium at the University of Toronto. The event coincides with
the 61st World Science Fiction Convention, held this year in Toronto.
The debate will feature Margaret Somerville, the founding director of the
Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law at McGill University and the
internationally known author of The Ethical Canary: Science, Society and the
Human Spirit.
Somerville will be debating James Hughes, who teaches health policy at
Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, is a leading thinker in
"transhuman" bioethics and is the author of Cyborg Democracy: Free, Equal
and United in the Posthuman World, to be published in 2004.
Moderating the debate will be journalist Tim Falconer, author of Watchdogs
and Gadflies: Activism from Marginal to Mainstream, a book about Canadian
activists.
Tickets to the event are $20 in advance and $25 at the door (all figures
Canadian). Attendees will receive an information-packed booklet providing
background on each of the issues.
To purchase tickets and learn more about the event, including media coverage
and sponsorship opportunities, visit
http://www.betterhumans.com/Events/Debating_the_Future/.
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