WTC Life Science Breakfast Series: Making the Case For and Against Human Enhancement March 15, 2007

Making the Case For and Against Human Enhancement

What limits, if any, should be placed on human enhancement? There are bio-ethicists who have proposed a global treaty to ban enhancement technologies as "crimes against humanity." The criticism focuses on the potential for increased discrimination based on gender, color, financial status, and the natural abilities and disabilities of "unenhanced" humans. Meanwhile, promoters of human enhancement assert the right to use of enhancement technologies as a fundamental human right, inseparable from the right to reproductive freedom, free expression and cognitive liberty. Is our culture and society equipped to ensure that enhancement technologies are safe and available to all, for all the right reasons?

Panelists:
[Moderator] David Ewing Duncan, Founder & Editorial Director, BioAgenda
[Moderator] Moira Gunn, Host of Tech Nation and BioTech Nation
Alex Barkas, PhD, Prospect Ventures
Michael Chorost, Freelance Science Writer, Author, Teacher and Public Speaker
Judy Illes, PhD, Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics
Gregory Stock, Director, UCLA Program on Medicine, Technology and Society

$25 per session (includes breakfast).

Events also Feb 15, April 19, May 17

Official Website: http://www.wtc-sf.org/lsbs2007.htm