HUM-MOLGEN events: BEYOND CLONING: Protecting Humanity from Species-Altering Procedures

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BEYOND CLONING: Protecting Humanity from Species-Altering Procedures

July 02, 2001

Boston University School of Public Health, Health Law Department, Boston, MA
Sept. 21 & 22

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.

Organized by:

Boston University School of Public Health, Health Law Department; others

Invited Speakers:

Speakers (partial list):
Lori Andrews, Chicago-Kent School of Law
George Annas, Chair, Health Law Department, Boston University School of Public Health Patricia Baird, University of British Columbia
Brent Blackwelder, President, Friends of the Earth
Michael Grodin, Boston University and Global Lawyers and Physicians
Debra Harry, Indigenous People's Council on Biocolonialism
Richard Hayes, Exploratory Initiative on the New Human Genetic Technologies
Rosario Isasi, Global Lawyers and Physicians (Peru)
Eric Juengst, Cleveland- Case Western Reserve University;
Stephen Marks, FXB Center, Harvard School of Public Health
Max Mehlman, Case-Western Reserve
Stuart Newman, Cell Biology and Anatomy, New York Medical College
Judy Norsigian, Boston Women's Health Book Collective
Evelyn Schuster, University of Pennsylvania
Susannah Sirkin, Physicians for Human Rights
Allyn Taylor, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health

Deadline for Abstracts:

passed

Registration:

Early Registration: $140

E-mail:

EvelyneShuster1@msn.com

Posted by:

Jesse Reynolds

Host:

65.200.96.6