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July 19, 2005
Human Enhancement Technologies: Through the Looking Glass of Drama
On July 14-17, CGREAL joined with Hiram College’s Center for Literature and Medicine, the Bioethics Network of Ohio, and Cleveland State University to co-sponsor a Summer Symposium for high school and college teachers, writers and dramatists, entitled “Human Enhancement Technologies: Through the Looking Glass of Drama.”
The symposium combined scholarly presentations by philosophers, sociologists and legal scholars with the performance and discussion of five short plays that illustrate the ethical and social issues raised by the application of biomedical technologies to improve on human form and function beyond the treatment of disease.
The goal of the symposium was to stimulate the approximately 50 participants to develop creative ways to teach and present the issues to wider public audiences, to enhance democratic deliberation in this area.
The schedule can be found online.
rsp10 July 19, 2005 02:57 PM
http://blog.case.edu/orgs/cgreal/mt-tb.cgi/1913