* IMPORTANT CONFERENCE * BEYOND CLONING:
Protecting Humanity From Species-Altering Procedures
Friday-Saturday, September 21-22, 2001
Boston University, Conference Auditorium, George Sherman Union.
Sponsored by: Boston University School of Public Health, Health Law Department
Co-Sponsors: Center for Genetics and Society, Illinois Inst. of Technology, Global Lawyers and Physicians
At this important conference leading physicians, scientists, health law experts and others will consider the urgent need for policies to prevent the alteration of the human species through genetic engineering. They will review lessons learned from the failure of existing policies, discuss new national and international approaches and mechanisms for banning species-altering procedures, and more.
According to Richard Hayes, Director of the Center for Genetics and Society, "Uncontrolled use of the new human genetic technologies puts us at risk of turning people into commodities and setting us on a road to a horrific future of genetically segregated castes. Our conference will consider intellectual and policy frameworks needed to reverse this perilous trend."
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.
Early Registration: $140. Students $45. Scholarships available on request. For further information on program, registration and lodging, go to: http://www.bumc.bu.edu/www/sph/lw/website/index.htm.
Speakers include:
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, Director, Center for Genetics and Society
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
Ann Snyder, Executive Director, Ethics, Law and Biotechnology Society, Harvard Law School
Allyn Taylor, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health