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The Donald & Paula Smith Family Foundation

Presents a debate:


Do We Have the Right To Improve Upon Human Nature?


Featuring

Prof.William B. Hurlbut
Physician and Consulting Professor in the Neuroscience Institute at Stanford University Medical Center.

Prof. Julian Savulescu
Director and Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics, University of Oxford.

Prof. Lee Silver
Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Moderator: Bob Bowdon

Co-Sponsors:
International Policy Network
The Smith Family Foundation



Better understanding of genetics and medicine is leading to new technologies that promise to extend and improve human life. Some argue that we have a right to use whatever technologies we choose in order to improve upon nature. Others claim that such interventions amount to ‘playing god’. Who is right?

Monday, June 16th, 2008
6:30 P.M. Prompt
(Free and open to the public)

Donnell Public Library
20 West 53rd Street
(Between 5th and 6th Avenue)

For more information contact Dawn Steeves at dawn@policynetwork.net

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