Ageless Bodies, Happy Souls Biotech & the Pursuit of Perfection
Start:
Thursday, January 9, 2003
5:30 PM
End:
Thursday, January 9, 2003
7:30 PM
Location:
EPPC Conference Center 1015 15th St NW, Suite 900 Washington, DC
T
he Ethics and Public Policy Center invites you to the inaugural lecture in a new lecture series on technology, ethics, and American politics - an effort to refine and enlarge the public debate about how technological advances will change American society. This year’s lectures bring together six leading scholars, journalists, and public voices to discuss "Technology and the American Future."
The first lecture in the series is presented by Leon Kass who is the Hertog Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics.
The New Atlantis is an effort to clarify the nation's moral and political understanding of all areas of technology, with a special emphasis on bioethics. The quarterly journal is an attempt to make sense of the larger questions surrounding technology and human nature, and the practical questions of governing and regulating science -- especially where the moral stakes are high and the political divides are deep.
In the latest issue:
The Editors on John McCain and the Stem Cell Debate. Yuval Levin on the past and future of the “party of science.” O. Carter Snead on brain scans and the conflicted aspirations of neuroscience. Matthew B. Crawford on the dangers of a mindless brain science. Cheryl Miller on the lively and fractious community of “infertiles.” Thomas W. Merrill reads Descartes’ Discourse on Method. Jeremy Lott on suburbs, bomb shelters, and bottled water. Christy Hall Robinson on celebrity patients as advocates. James C. Capretta on why health care records are so low-tech. Caitrin Nicol on predictions of robotic intimacy. David Franz on the utopian origins of Dilbert's sorkspace. George Mitchell on drugs in baseball.