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| ARE GENES US? Annual Conference of the SOCIETY FOR APPLIED PHILOSOPHY |
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Date and Place:
19th -21st May 2000, Manchester, United Kingdom. |
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Deadline: November 1st 1999 |
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Send to: Professor Brenda Almond |
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| Please send abstracts of papers to the conference organisers
Brenda Almond (University of Hull) and Michael Parker (Oxford University/Ethox) by
November 1st 1999 to Professor Brenda Almond, Department of Philosophy, University of
Hull, Cottingham Road, Hull, HU7 6RX. Papers should be 20 minutes long for presentation
but the conference will be followed by full length publication. |
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| CALL FOR PAPERS The aim of the conference is to explore ethical, social and philosophical issues raised by the new genetics. The conference will be organised around three main themes, and contributions are invited on any of the following topics: 1.GENETICS AND PERSONAL IDENTITY (keynote speaker to be announced) The impact of the new genetics and of the Human Genome project on conceptions of personality and identity; genetic enhancement and prenatal screening; deterministic implications; the concept of the normal and the justification of intervention; germ-line therapy; the cloning debate. 2.GENETIC RELATIONSHIPS (Keynote speaker Anna Kessling, Professor of Community Genetics, Imperial College) The impact of the new genetics on human relationships. Genetic screening and predictive testing. Confidentiality. Concepts of risk. Biomedical intervention in human reproduction. The medical restructuring of family relationships. 3.GENETICS, THE NON-HUMAN WORLD AND US (Keynote speaker Ruth Chadwick. Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of Central Lancashire) The genetic modification of crops and foods. The release of genetically modified organisms. The environment. Genetics, Farming and Agriculture. Xenotransplantation.
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