The IHEU-IEET conference “Human Rights for the 21st Century: Rights of the Person to Technological Self-Determination” was held May 11-13, 2007 at the United Nations in New York. It focused on (a) human rights in the context of bodily autonomy as well as reproductive and cognitive liberties, (b) emerging biotechnologies which may contribute to the exercise of such rights, and (c) challenges to the ideas of human identity underlying some rights discourse.
We recorded all the talks and are editing them and putting them online. This is the first set. Click on the speaker’s name to go to their bio and abstract, and on the talk title to listen to or download the MP3.
Jeff Buechner Ph.D. Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University
“Problems with The Case Against Perfection”
Kuan-Ting Chi Sheffield Institute of Biotechnological Law and Ethics, UK
“Scientific Evidence and Human Rights: the difficulty from scientific uncertainty”
Chalmers C. Clark, PhD Dept of Philosophy, Union College
“What is in a Face? Philosophy and Facial Transplantation”
Fred Frohock Ph.D. University of Miami
“Human Rights and Stem Cell Research: An Emerging Set of Limits for Rights Vocabularies?”
Linda MacDonald Glenn, J.D., LL.M. Women’s Bioethics Project
“Technological challenges to the ideas of human identity”
James J. Hughes Ph.D. Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
“The Ethics of Sex Selection”
David Koepsell J.D., Ph.D. Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, Yale University
“Rights to One’s Own Genes: The Human Genome as a Commons”
Martine Rothblatt, Ph.D., J.D., M.B.A. United Therapeutics; Terasem Movement
“Technological Transexualism as a Torchbearer for Technological Self-Determination”
Priyamvada Sivasubramanian Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai, India
“The Proliferation of Indian Nari Guinea Pigs: Coercive Population Policies and Dubious Clinical Trials”
Kristi Scott IEET
“Cheating Darwin: The Genetic and Ethical Implications of Vanity and Cosmetic Plastic Surgery”
Three of the four IEET Interns at the IHEU-IEET conference: Austin Corbett, Kristi Scott, Priya Sivasubramanian (Jonathan Pfeiffer missing)
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