"Post-human evolution (whether of organic species or of artefacts) will proceed far faster than the changes that led to emergence, because it will be intelligently directed rather than being - like pre-human evolution - the gradual outcome of Darwinian natural selection. Changes will drastically accelerate in the present century - through intentional genetic modifications, targeted drugs, perhaps even silicon implants in to the brain. Humanity may not persist as a single species for more than a few centuries - especially if communities have by then become established away from the earth." Martin Rees, Cosmologist, Cambridge University; Author, Our Final Hour
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Human Enhancement Technologies and Human Rights
May 26-28, 2006
Stanford University Law School, Stanford, California
Ms. Colleton studied international human rights and graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1999 and Harvard Law School in 2003. She also worked for a human rights organization in Pristina, Kosovo. She has written on the abuse of UN power in the provisional Kosovo government as well as restoring humanity after violent ethnic conflict. She studies bioethics at the Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Divinity School, and expects to receive a Masters Degree in Theological Studies in 2006.
Health Care Access in the U.S. and the Elusive Line Between Enhancement and Therapy
Biotechnology has made possible both treatments for diseases or disorders and enhancements of human traits, but the line between the two categories is unclear and uncertain. This paper will explore where that line has been placed, what this means for health care access, and thus where the line should be.
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