Beyond Therapy: Exploring Enhancement and Human Futures

 

 

July 15-17, 2010
Deerfield, Illinois, USA

Co-Sponsors

University at Buffalo School of Medicene and Biomedical Sciences
Nurses Christian Fellowship
Trinity International University

Plenary Speakers

  • "Embodiment, Biotechnology, and Human Dignity" -- William Hurlbut, MD
  • "Physicians, Patients, and Other Endangered Species: Late Modern Medicine and Bioethics" -- Brent Waters, DPhil
  • "Virtual Paradise? Being Human in a World of Digitized Reality and Artificial Life" -- Michael J. Sleasman, PhD
  • "Race and The New Biocitizen" -- Dorothy Roberts, JD
  • "New Medicine and the Pursuit of Superhealth" -- William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD
  • "Regenerative Medicine" -- Maureen Condic, PhD
  • "Mommy Mistakes? Bioethics and the Rhetoric of Shame" -- Amy Laura Hall, PhD

Courses:

  • Intensive Bioethics Institute -- Paige C. Cunningham, JD
  • Advanced Bioethics Institute -- David Fletcher, PhD
  • Medicine and the New Healthcare Paradigm Institute -- Gregory Rutecki, MD and Donal O'Mathuna, PhD
  • Pre-Med/Undergraduate Bioethics Institute -- Joyce Shelton, PhD
  • Undergraduate/Graduate Wrap-Around Course -- Ferdinand D. Yates, Jr., MD
  • Graduate Wrap-Around Course -- Hans Madueme, MD, PhD Candidate and Dennis Hollinger, PhD
  • Post-Conference Seminar: Bioethics and Moral Theology -- Michael J. Sleasman, PhD
  • Post-Conference Seminar: Biolaw -- Mailee Smith, JD and William L. Saunders, Jr., JD