James Hughes

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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Books

Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Future by James Hughes (2004)

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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

"Postgenderism: Beyond the Gender Binary (IEET White Paper 03)"   IEET White Paper Series  Mar 20, 2008

"Pondering the Future of Death Over A Mojito"   New Scientist  Dec 7, 2007

"Promoting BioFuturist Policy Brainstorming Among the Young"   Ethical Technology  Nov 30, 2007

"Virtue Engineering"   People Database  Nov 20, 2007

"Waiting for the Great Leap…Forward?"   People's Database  Nov 2, 2007

"Situationist Challenge to Cyborg Buddhism?"   Ethical Technology  Oct 22, 2007

"Technocitizenship, innovation and the biopolitics of medical devices"   (an edited version was published in Medical Device Daily)  Sep 26, 2007

"The struggle for a smarter world"   Futures 39(8) Oct 2007: 942-954  Aug 8, 2007

"Global Technology Regulation and Potentially Apocalyptic Technological Threats"   forthcoming in Nanoethics: The Ethical and Social Implications of Nanotechnology  Jul 2, 2007

"Ensuring Universal Access to Enhancing Technologies"   Ethical Technology  Jun 27, 2007

"Sex Selection and Women’s Reproductive Rights"   Ethical Technology  May 10, 2007

"Hacia nuevas formas de trans-espiritualidad"   Tendencias21  Apr 18, 2007

"On The Compatibility of Religion and Transhumanism"   Global Spiral 8(2)  Apr 1, 2007

"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

"Christology and the Human Body"   Ethical Technology  Mar 6, 2007

"From Virtual Sex to No Sex?"   Ethical Technology  Feb 28, 2007

"Left BioCon Futurist Scenario Building"   Ethical Technology  Feb 26, 2007

"Träumen mit Diderot"   Telepolis (in German and English)  Feb 1, 2007

"Dreaming with Diderot"   Cyborg Democracy  Jan 14, 2007

"What comes after humans?"   New Scientist  Nov 16, 2006

"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

"Beyond the medical model of gender dysphoria to morphological self-determination"   Lahey Clinic Medical Ethics Journal, Winter 2006   Apr 1, 2006

"Saving Human Rights from the Human Racists"   Betterhumans  Mar 27, 2006

"The Illusiveness Of Immortality"   Death And Anti-Death, Volume 3  Feb 17, 2006

"Universal Health Care Vouchers"   Ethical Technology  Feb 2, 2006

"Technoprogressive Social Policy in the Wake of Katrina"   Ethical Technology  Sep 10, 2005

"BIG and Generational Equity in an Automated and Life-Extended Future"   presented at USBIG 2005  May 7, 2005

"Drawing a Stem Cell Line in the Sand"   Betterhumans  Jan 12, 2005

"Transhumanism and Unitarian Universalism:  Beginning the Dialogue"   Unitarian Universalist Society East  Dec 13, 2004

"A Conversation with Dr. James Hughes"   WorldChanging  Dec 1, 2004

"Human Enhancement on the Agenda"   BetterHumans  Oct 31, 2004

"Cover Everyone and Cure Aging: Counterintuitive answers to healthcare inflation"   BetterHumans  Oct 13, 2004

"Technologies of Self-Perfection"   Betterhumans  Sep 22, 2004

"Engineering Better Citizens"   Betterhumans  Sep 1, 2004

"Humanism for personhood: against human-racism: a new fight for human rights"   Free Inquiry  Jun 1, 2004

"George W. Bush Is Getting Brain-jacked"   Betterhumans  Mar 9, 2004

"Embrace the End of Work"   Betterhumans  Feb 24, 2004

"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

"Monsters in the Media"   Betterhumans  Dec 23, 2003

"Getting Paid in Our Jobless Future"   Betterhumans  Sep 22, 2003

"Beyond Gay Marriage"   Betterhumans  Jul 23, 2003

"Reconciling Humans, Nature and Technology"   Betterhumans  Apr 14, 2003

"Reconciliando humanos, natureza e tecnologia"   Folha Verde  Apr 14, 2003

"The Future of Sex"   Betterhumans  Feb 9, 2003

"Democratic Transhumanism 2.0"   Transhumanity  Dec 25, 2002

"Cloning As A Valid Reproductive Choice"   Hartford Courant  Oct 21, 2002

"The Politics of Transhumanism 2.0"   Changesurfer.com  Mar 1, 2002

"Medical ethics through the Star Trek lens"   in Literature and Medicine 20.1 (2001) 26-38   May 7, 2001

"The Intelligent Other in Science, Fantasy and Horror Fiction, 1895 to the Present"   Ethical Technology  Aug 2, 1999

"Paying injection drug users to educate and recruit their peers"   Quality Management in Health Care. 1999 Summer;7(4):4-12.  May 7, 1999

"Birth Doctors and Death Doctors"   University of Chicago Sociology Department  Jul 7, 1998

"Buddhism and Abortion: A Western Approach"   in Buddhism and Abortion. Editor: Damien Keown.  May 7, 1998

"Hirntod und technologischer Wandel"   Telepolis  Jun 7, 1997

"Duplicity about Duplication: Cloning as Lens for Millenial Angst"   Telepolis (in German and English)  May 3, 1997

"Embracing Change with All Four Arms: A Post-Humanist Defense of Genetic Engineering"   Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics  Jun 1, 1996

"Den Wandel mit aller Entschlossenheit ergreifen"   http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/2/2027/1.html  May 7, 1996

"The Doctor-Patient Relationship: Does it Really Matter?"   MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics  Jan 28, 1996

"Aliens, Technology and Freedom: Science Fiction Consumption and Socio-Ethical Attitudes"   Futures Research Quarterly, Winter, 1995, 11(4): 39-58.  Nov 7, 1995

"Organization and Information at the Bedside (dissertation)"   Sociology Dept., University of Chicago  Nov 22, 1994

"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

"Better Living Through World Government:: Transnationalism as 21st Century Socialism"   Chicago DSA  May 7, 1991

"Monogamy as a Prisoner’s Dilemma: Non-Monogamy as a Collective Action Problem"   Changesurfer.com  Dec 26, 1990

"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

"Buddhist Feminism"   in Women & Buddhism. Toronto: Spring Wind-Buddhist Cultural Forum, Vol.6, 1986, pp. 58-79.  Mar 7, 1986

"Altered States of Consciousness and Social Structure: Glossolalia in the Pentecostal Church"   Oberlin College  May 1, 1983