Transvision
2003 Panel
Debate: "Should
Humans Welcome or Resist Becoming Posthuman?"
Friday, June 27, 2003
Davies Hall, Becton Center
Yale University, New Haven, CT
USA
(Click
for directions)
FREE
AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!
Resist
George
Annas J.D.
Health
Law Program
Boston University
George
J. Annas is the Edward R. Utley Professor of Health Law, Chairman of
Health Law Department at the Boston University School of Public Health.
He holds a degree in law from Harvard Law School and an M.P.H. from the
Harvard School of Public Health. He is a widely published national
expert in the field of law and medicine, whose books include The Rights
of Patients and Some Choice: Law, Medicine and the Market. Professor
Annas is the cofounder of Global Lawyers & Physicians and the
Patients Rights Project. Professor Annas has appeared on 60 Minutes,
Nightline, Frontline, Today, and Good Morning America as well as the
nightly news programs of NBC, ABC, CBS, and Fox. For five years, he was
the director of the Boston University School of Law's Center for Law and
Health Sciences. Professor Annas teaches bioethics.
Welcome
Gregory
Stock Ph.D.
Program
on Medicine, Technology, and Society
UCLA
Dr. Gregory Stock is the Director of
the Program on Medicine, Technology, and Society at UCLA’s School of
Public Health. In this role he explores critical technologies poised to
have large impacts on humanity’s future and the shape of medical
science. His goal has been to bring about a broad public debate on these
technologies and their implications, leading to wise public policies
surrounding their realization. Of particular interest to the program are
the implications for society, medicine, and business of the human genome
project and associated developments emerging from today’s revolution
in molecular genetics and bioinformatics. The Storefront Genome,
the symposium he convened in January 2003 to consider the broad
challenges that cheap, easy access to our genetic constitutions will
bring drew wide media attention, and his 1998 look at the possibilities
of manipulating the genetics of human embryos, the first major public
discussion of this issue among distinguished scientists, opened a global
debate on this then taboo topic.
A prolific author and recognized
authority on the impact of new technologies on human society, Professor.
Stock’s 2002 book, Redesigning Humans: Our Inevitable Genetic
Future with Houghton Mifflin, won the Kistler Book Prize for Science
books and was nominated for a Wired Rave Award. Among his other books
are Engineering The Human Germline for Oxford University Press, Metaman,
for Simon & Schuster, and the best seller, The Book of Questions,
which has been translated into seventeen languages, and is now in its
fifty-fifth printing. Sequels to that book include The Book of
Questions: Business, Politics, and Ethics and a new book that will
explore how coming technologies will reshape our everyday lives.
Dr. Stock
has been an invited speaker to numerous academic, government, and
business conferences, sits on the editorial board of the American
Journal of Bioethics, and was asked to submit an Advisory Memo to
the President on the challenges of the next century. He makes
regular appearances on television and radio, including CNN, PBS, NPR,
Bloomberg, and the BBC. He has debated biotech policy with Jeremy
Rifkin, Leon Kass, Francis Fukuyama, and other prominent voices who
would rein in biomedical research, and he is hosting a television
special later this year on key figures in today’s biotech revolution.
Gregory Stock has a Doctorate in
Biophysics from Johns Hopkins University, and an MBA from Harvard
University and currently has appointments at Princeton University and
UCLA’s School of Public Health.
Directions to
Davies Hall in Becton Center, 15 Prospect Street
Visitors arriving by car
(see below for directions to visitor parking):
Interstate 91
From north or south: Take Exit 3 (Trumbull Street). Continue to
end of Trumbull Street to the fourth traffic light. Turn left onto
Prospect Street -- Becton Center is the 2nd building on your left,
#15.
Interstate 95
From north: Connect to I-91 North in New Haven; take Exit 3
(Trumbull Street) and follow directions above for I-91.
From south: Connect to I-91 North in New Haven (left exit); take
Exit 3 (Trumbull Street) and follow directions above for I-91.
Route 15 (Wilbur Cross/Merritt Parkways)
Take Exit 61. Drive south on Whitney Avenue for approximately
five miles. Turn right on Trumbull Street. Continue to next traffic
light (at Prospect Street) and turn left. -- Becton Center is the 2nd
building on your left, #15.
Parking
The best option is to use the public Grove Street Parking
Garage, located at 65 Grove Street. This facility is closest to Becton
Center.
Directions to Grove Street Parking
Garage:
From I-91, take exit 3 (Trumbull Street). At bottom of ramp,
turn left at the traffic light onto Orange St. Go two blocks and turn
right (at the traffic light) onto Grove St. Entrance to the parking
garage is on your right, just before the traffic light at Whitney Ave.
To get to Becton Center after parking, continue walking up Grove
Street for 3 blocks until you reach Prospect St. Turn right onto
Prospect and our building is the 2nd one on your right. (See map;
click on "Hillhouse Avenue" and go to section D-1 on map
(the parking garage is just off the map just below section D. Becton
Center is at section B-1.)
Visitors arriving by plane
Tweed-New Haven Airport is 10 minutes from the Yale campus by
car or taxi but has limited air service. Bradley/Hartford Airport is
about 60 minutes by car from New Haven. There is frequent limousine
service from there as well as the other major New York airports (JFK,
LaGuardia). Driving time from the NY airports is about 2 hours,
depending on traffic conditions. Bradley Airport is the most
recommended provided there are good air connections from your starting
point.
From the limousine terminal in New Haven, take a taxi to Becton
Center.
Visitors arriving by train
MetroNorth and Amtrak
have scheduled connections to New Haven. At Union Station in New Haven
take a taxi to Becton Center, 15 Prospect Street.
