Annual Conference, Is There a Global Bioethics? Moral, Legal, and International Norms in Bioscience

Annual Conference, Is There a Global Bioethics? Moral, Legal, and International Norms in Bioscience

Date: Friday-Sunday, April 21-23, 2006
Location: 777 UN Plaza New York, NY 10017

Taking a broad and cross-disciplinary approach to addressing medical and bio-technological issues in contemporary society, conference topics include ethics and religion, humanist and ethical views on science and the public, and the development of biotechnology and its ethical implications. Through paper presentations and panel discussions, the Conference will address such topics as: stem cell research, public policy of genetics and privacy, genetic engineering and human dignity, reproductive and sexual rights of women, the United Nations as a forum for bioethics, intellectual property in global bioscience, ethical issue in infectious disease control internationally and nationally, and the challenge of evolutionary theory.

Two keynote speakers at the conference include:

• Art Caplan Ph.D., Emmanuel and Robert Hart Professor of Bioethics, Chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia
• Paul Kurtz Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo, chair emeritus of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI) and the Council for Secular Humanism, founder and chair of Prometheus Books, and editor-in-chief of Free Inquiry Magazine, MA and PhD, Columbia University

Cocktail Reception: Friday, April 21, 6:00 – 9:00 PM at
Turkish Consulate General, Culture & Tourism Office
821 UN Plaza
New York, NY 10017

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