The 2010 A.B. Duke Speaker Series
1/21/2010
THE FUTURE OF THE HUMAN BODY: perspectives on genomics, technology, and the perils and promises of cracking the code.
Location: 0012 Westbrook, below the refectory
Thursday January 21, 6pm: Allen Buchanan - Beyond Humanity? The Ethics of Biomedical Enhancement
Allen Buchanan is the James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy Studies at Duke. Buchanan has served as staff philosopher for the President's Commission on Medical Ethics, as well as on the Advisory Council for the National Human Genome Research Institute. His research has centered around the ethics of genetic intervention with human beings.
Tuesday January 26, 6pm: Priscilla Wald - Clones, Chimeras, and Other Creatures of the Biotechnological Revolution
Priscilla Wald is a professor of English and Women's Studies at Duke, and author of Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative. She serves on the Advisory Board of the Centre for the Humanities and Medicine at the University of Hong Kong. She is currently working on a book-length project analyzing the cultural effects of information emerging from research in the genome sciences as it circulates through mainstream media and popular culture.
Tuesday February 2, 6pm: Misha Angrist - The Human Genome: Perpetual Contemplation of an Infinite Glory...or Something.
Misha Angrist is Assistant Professor of the Practice at the Duke University Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy. In 2009 he had his entire genome sequenced. His book, Here is a Human Being: At the Dawn of Personal Genomics (HarperCollins), will be published in the fall.
Thursday February 11, 6pm: Tim Lenoir (via videochat) - Contemplating Singularity
Tim Lenoir is the Kimberly Jenkins Chair for New Technologies and Society at Duke University. He has published several books and articles on the history of biomedical science from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. His more recent work has focused on the introduction of computers into biomedical research from the early 1960s to the present.
Thursday February 18, 6pm: Bob Cook-Deegan - So my genome costs less than my bike: what's the big deal?
Robert Cook-Deegan is Director of the IGSP's Center for Genome Ethics, Law & Policy, and the author of The Gene Wars: Science, Politics, and the Human Genome. He worked for the National Center for Human Genome Research in 1989 and 1990, after serving Acting Executive Director of the Biomedical Ethics Advisory Committee of the U.S. Congress.
Tuesday February 23, 6pm: Final Panel and Wrap-up discussion
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