Issues for the
Millennium: Cloning and Genetic Technologies
This conference will provide a forum in which scientists,
academics, law and medical professionals, students and members
of the public come together to discuss important issues in
bioethics facing society at the beginning of the 21st
century. The conference schedule will allow ample opportunity
for members of the audience to ask questions and to meet with
panel members after their talks in break-out group sessions.
Conference goals include interdisciplinary education, education
of the public, and broad-based discussion.
| Science Panel |
Ethics Panel |
| June 1 (8:30 a.m. - noon) |
June 1 (1 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.) |
--Human Genome Project
--Animal cloning
--Production of biopharmaceuticals using animals
--Human cloning
--Xenotransplantation |
--Natural-Law and Genetic Technologies
--Personhood
--Playing God
--Democratizing Decision-Making |
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Tuesday Evening Plenary Address (8 p.m.)
Dr. Lee Silver, Department of Biology, Princeton
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| Interreligious Panel |
Law/Policy Panel |
| June 2 (8:30 a.m. – 1:15 p.m.) |
June 2 (4 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.) |
--A Catholic Perspective on Cloning and Stem
Cell Research
--The Need for the Religious Voice in Bioethics
--Creation and Cloning in Jewish Thought
--Jewish Perspective on Overcoming Infertility
--Shin Buddhist Attitudes on Human Cloning |
-- Science and the Courts
-- Human Rights and the New Genetics
-- Human Rights and Cloning
-- Law and Genetic Technologies
-- Agribusiness
-- Patent Issues |
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Wednesday Evening Plenary Address (8 p.m.)
Lori B. Andrews, Chicago-Kent College of Law
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The conference is free and open to the public.
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