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James Hughes
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James Hughes Ph.D., the IEET Executive Director, is a bioethicist and sociologist at Trinity College in Hartford Connecticut where he teaches Health Policy and serves as Associate Director of Institutional Research and Planning. He holds a doctorate in sociology from the University of Chicago, where he also taught bioethics at the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics. Dr. Hughes is author of Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Future , and is working on a second book tentatively titled Cyborg Buddha. Since 1999 he has produced a syndicated weekly radio program, Changesurfer Radio.
Dr. Hughes was briefly ordained as a Buddhist monk in Sri Lanka in 1984 while working for the Buddhist development organization Sarvodaya Shramadana. He founded and edited the international newsletter Doctor-Patient Studies (1991-1995) which reviewed research on the doctor-patient relationship, the focus of his doctoral research. He also edited the Chicago student newspaper Grey City Journal, the national student magazine The Activist, and the international ‘zine EcoSocialist Review.
He is a Fellow of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities and the Working Group on Ethics and Technology at Yale University.
Dr. Hughes speaks on medical ethics, health care policy and future studies worldwide, and appears often radio and television.
Dr. Hughes is available for media interviews.
Office tel: 860-297-2376, 860-428-1837
E-mail: director at ieet.org
Skype: citizencyborg
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Home Page: http://internet2.trincoll.edu/facProfiles/Default.aspx?fid=1004332
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Books
Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Future by James Hughes (2004)
Articles
"Millennial Tendencies in Responses to Apocalyptic Threats" in Global Catastrophic Risks eds. Nick Bostrom and Milan M. Cirkovic. Oxford University Press. 2008. pgs 72-89 Apr 14, 2008 br>
"Postgenderism: Beyond the Gender Binary (IEET White Paper 03)" IEET White Paper Series Mar 20, 2008 br>
"Pondering the Future of Death Over A Mojito" New Scientist Dec 7, 2007 br>
"Promoting BioFuturist Policy Brainstorming Among the Young" Ethical Technology Nov 30, 2007 br>
"Virtue Engineering" People Database Nov 20, 2007 br>
"Waiting for the Great Leap…Forward?" People's Database Nov 2, 2007 br>
"Situationist Challenge to Cyborg Buddhism?" Ethical Technology Oct 22, 2007 br>
"Technocitizenship, innovation and the biopolitics of medical devices" (an edited version was published in Medical Device Daily) Sep 26, 2007 br>
"The struggle for a smarter world" Futures 39(8) Oct 2007: 942-954 Aug 8, 2007 br>
"Global Technology Regulation and Potentially Apocalyptic Technological Threats" forthcoming in Nanoethics: The Ethical and Social Implications of Nanotechnology Jul 2, 2007 br>
"Ensuring Universal Access to Enhancing Technologies" Ethical Technology Jun 27, 2007 br>
"Sex Selection and Women’s Reproductive Rights" Ethical Technology May 10, 2007 br>
"Hacia nuevas formas de trans-espiritualidad" Tendencias21 Apr 18, 2007 br>
"On The Compatibility of Religion and Transhumanism" Global Spiral 8(2) Apr 1, 2007 br>
"Buddhist Bioethics" Principles of Health Care Ethics, Second Edition Edited by R.E. Ashcroft, A. Dawson, H. Draper and J.R. McMillan. John Wiley. Mar 9, 2007 br>
"Christology and the Human Body" Ethical Technology Mar 6, 2007 br>
"From Virtual Sex to No Sex?" Ethical Technology Feb 28, 2007 br>
"Left BioCon Futurist Scenario Building" Ethical Technology Feb 26, 2007 br>
"Träumen mit Diderot" Telepolis (in German and English) Feb 1, 2007 br>
"Dreaming with Diderot" Cyborg Democracy Jan 14, 2007 br>
"What comes after humans?" New Scientist Nov 16, 2006 br>
"Human Enhancement and the Emergent Technopolitics of the 21st Century (excerpt)" in Managing Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno Innovations: Converging Technologies in Society edited by Bainbridge, W.S. & M.C. Roco. 2006. Springer May 19, 2006 br>
"Beyond the medical model of gender dysphoria to morphological self-determination" Lahey Clinic Medical Ethics Journal, Winter 2006 Apr 1, 2006 br>
"Saving Human Rights from the Human Racists" Betterhumans Mar 27, 2006 br>
"The Illusiveness Of Immortality" Death And Anti-Death, Volume 3 Feb 17, 2006 br>
"Universal Health Care Vouchers" Ethical Technology Feb 2, 2006 br>
"Technoprogressive Social Policy in the Wake of Katrina" Ethical Technology Sep 10, 2005 br>
"BIG and Generational Equity in an Automated and Life-Extended Future" presented at USBIG 2005 May 7, 2005 br>
"Drawing a Stem Cell Line in the Sand" Betterhumans Jan 12, 2005 br>
"Transhumanism and Unitarian Universalism: Beginning the Dialogue" Unitarian Universalist Society East Dec 13, 2004 br>
"A Conversation with Dr. James Hughes" WorldChanging Dec 1, 2004 br>
"Human Enhancement on the Agenda" BetterHumans Oct 31, 2004 br>
"Cover Everyone and Cure Aging: Counterintuitive answers to healthcare inflation" BetterHumans Oct 13, 2004 br>
"Technologies of Self-Perfection" Betterhumans Sep 22, 2004 br>
"Engineering Better Citizens" Betterhumans Sep 1, 2004 br>
"Humanism for personhood: against human-racism: a new fight for human rights" Free Inquiry Jun 1, 2004 br>
"George W. Bush Is Getting Brain-jacked" Betterhumans Mar 9, 2004 br>
"Embrace the End of Work" Betterhumans Feb 24, 2004 br>
"The Death of Death" in Brain Death and Disorders of Consciousness. 2004. eds. Calixto Machado and D. Alan Shewmon. Kluwer. pps. 79-88. Feb 10, 2004 br>
"Monsters in the Media" Betterhumans Dec 23, 2003 br>
"Getting Paid in Our Jobless Future" Betterhumans Sep 22, 2003 br>
"Beyond Gay Marriage" Betterhumans Jul 23, 2003 br>
"Reconciling Humans, Nature and Technology" Betterhumans Apr 14, 2003 br>
"Reconciliando humanos, natureza e tecnologia" Folha Verde Apr 14, 2003 br>
"The Future of Sex" Betterhumans Feb 9, 2003 br>
"Democratic Transhumanism 2.0" Transhumanity Dec 25, 2002 br>
"Cloning As A Valid Reproductive Choice" Hartford Courant Oct 21, 2002 br>
"The Politics of Transhumanism 2.0" Changesurfer.com Mar 1, 2002 br>
"Medical ethics through the Star Trek lens" in Literature and Medicine 20.1 (2001) 26-38 May 7, 2001 br>
"The Intelligent Other in Science, Fantasy and Horror Fiction, 1895 to the Present" Ethical Technology Aug 2, 1999 br>
"Paying injection drug users to educate and recruit their peers" Quality Management in Health Care. 1999 Summer;7(4):4-12. May 7, 1999 br>
"Birth Doctors and Death Doctors" University of Chicago Sociology Department Jul 7, 1998 br>
"Buddhism and Abortion: A Western Approach" in Buddhism and Abortion. Editor: Damien Keown. May 7, 1998 br>
"Hirntod und technologischer Wandel" Telepolis Jun 7, 1997 br>
"Duplicity about Duplication: Cloning as Lens for Millenial Angst" Telepolis (in German and English) May 3, 1997 br>
"Embracing Change with All Four Arms: A Post-Humanist Defense of Genetic Engineering" Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics Jun 1, 1996 br>
"Den Wandel mit aller Entschlossenheit ergreifen" http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/2/2027/1.html May 7, 1996 br>
"The Doctor-Patient Relationship: Does it Really Matter?" MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics Jan 28, 1996 br>
"Aliens, Technology and Freedom: Science Fiction Consumption and Socio-Ethical Attitudes" Futures Research Quarterly, Winter, 1995, 11(4): 39-58. Nov 7, 1995 br>
"Organization and Information at the Bedside (dissertation)" Sociology Dept., University of Chicago Nov 22, 1994 br>
"Beginnings and Endings: The Buddhist Mythos of the Arising and Passing Away of the World" in Buddhist Perceptions of Desirable Societies in the Future eds. Sulak Sivaraksa. IRCD: Bangkok, Thailand. 1993 Jan 3, 1993 br>
"Better Living Through World Government:: Transnationalism as 21st Century Socialism" Chicago DSA May 7, 1991 br>
"Monogamy as a Prisoner’s Dilemma: Non-Monogamy as a Collective Action Problem" Changesurfer.com Dec 26, 1990 br>
"World Buddhism and the Peace Movement" Bulletin of Peace Proposals 18(3) United Nations University and Norwegian University Press: Tokyo, Japan]18(3): 449-468. Oct 7, 1987 br>
"Buddhist Feminism" in Women & Buddhism. Toronto: Spring Wind-Buddhist Cultural Forum, Vol.6, 1986, pp. 58-79. Mar 7, 1986 br>
"Altered States of Consciousness and Social Structure: Glossolalia in the Pentecostal Church" Oberlin College May 1, 1983 br>
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Upcoming Appearances
Hughes, Bainbridge @ The Future of Religions/Religions of the Future (Second Life - Jun 04, 2008)
Hughes @ World Humanist Congress (Washington, DC - Jun 06, 2008)
Hughes, Bostrom, Treder @ Global Catastrophic Risks Conference (Oxford University, Oxford, UK - Jul 17, 2008)
IEET SEMINAR: Preventing Extinction (Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA - Nov 14, 2008)
Recent Multimedia
21st Century Kids 2008-05-04
Is War Inevitable? 2008-04-13
Population Control’s Sad History 2008-04-13
Amphetamines (pt2) and the Scopes Trial 2008-03-30
On Speed - Part 1 2008-03-30
Geo-Engineering: Defensive and Offensive 2008-03-30
Gender, Space and Extinction 2008-03-25
The Secular Conscience 2008-03-16
Longevity Dividend Seminar Talks 2008-02-24
Hughes on SETI Radio 2008-02-14
Recent News
Emergence - IEET News for May 1, 2008
The Past and Future of Evolution
Hughes Talk on H+ & Religion top-rated at Thoughtware.tv
Discussion Forums, Commenting and Collaborative Thinktankery
Ashley X’s Parents Declare Treatment a Success
Past Appearances
Hughes @ Evolution in the 21st Century (Madison, Wisconsin, USA - Apr 17, 2008)
Hughes @ Center for Inquiry (Orlando, Florida - Feb 22, 2008)
Hughes on Future Neurotech for Future Problem Solvers (Marlborough, CT - Jan 09, 2008)
Hughes on FastForward Radio (Global/Virtual - Dec 23, 2007)
Hughes @ Macalester College (St. Paul, Minnesota - Nov 15, 2007)
Hughes @ The Future of our Species - evolution, disease and sustainable development (Heidelberg, Germany - Nov 02, 2007)
Hughes & François Berger on Human Enhancement (Paris, France - Oct 24, 2007)
Hughes @ Lawrence University (Appleton, WI USA - Oct 12, 2007)
Hughes @ Stem Cell Summit (Boston, MA USA - Oct 03, 2007)
Hughes addresses CT Assoc of Biology Teachers (Manchester CT USA - Sep 14, 2007)
Hughes, Cascio @ Singularity Summit II (San Francisco, CA USA - Sep 08, 2007)
Hughes, de Grey, Bostrom and more @ Transvision 2007 (Chicago, IL USA - Jul 24, 2007)
Securing the Longevity Dividend: Building the Campaign for Anti-Aging Science (Chicago, Illinois - Jul 23, 2007)
Hughes @ Global Biotechnology Governance: Ethical and Political Challenges (Bryant University |Smithfield, RI, USA - Jul 20, 2007)
Hughes, Bostrom @ Progressive Bioethics Summit (Washington D.C. - Jul 12, 2007)
21st CENTURY RIGHTS (NYC, NY USA - May 11, 2007)
Seminar on Transhumanism and Religion in Second Life (Uvvy Island, Second Life - Apr 29, 2007)
Hughes on H+ & Human Nature (Tempe, Arizona USA - Apr 16, 2007)
Hughes,Glenn @ Nano & Human Enhancement (Dartmouth, NH, USA - Apr 14, 2007)
Hughes v. Murray: How Far Should We Go in Redesigning Humanity?” (Hoboken, NJ USA - Mar 21, 2007)
Hughes on Enhancement @ ET Baptist University (Marshall TX USA - Mar 05, 2007)
Hughes @ St. Scholastica on Enhancement (Duluth MN USA - Jan 23, 2007)
Hughes on Cognitive Liberty (NY, NY USA - Dec 01, 2006)
Hughes speaks at Ethics Ed Conf (New Hampshire, USA - Nov 16, 2006)
Hughes on “Liberty in the Neurotech Era” at UPenn (Philadelphia, PA USA - Sep 21, 2006)
Hughes on Liberty, Equality, Technology (Stockholm, Sweden - Aug 16, 2006)
Hughes to speak at ASBH Politics & Bioethics Conf (Albany, NY, USA - Jul 13, 2006)
Hughes speaks at Idea City (Toronto, Canada - Jun 21, 2006)
Hughes on enhancement - UC Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, CA, USA - May 25, 2006)
Hughes on ‘Politics of Human Enhancement’ (London, UK - Mar 17, 2006)
Bostrom, Hughes, de Grey at Human Enhancement (Oxford UK - Mar 14, 2006)
Hughes, Prisco, Treder & de Grey at Conf on Sci-Tech (Madrid, Spain - Mar 09, 2006)
Hughes speaks in Seattle (Portland State U, Seattle, WA USA - Feb 06, 2006)
IEET Director Hughes to speak at Re-Inventing Capitalism (NYC, NY USA - Dec 02, 2005)
Lecture on “Citizen Cyborg” by Dr Hughes (Trinity College, Hartford CT USA - Nov 30, 2005)
IEET Director Hughes (Cracow, Poland - Nov 22, 2005)
Hughes speaks in Prague (Prague, Czech Republic - Nov 21, 2005)
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