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From: "George Dvorsky" <>
Subject: Leading Bioethicists to "Debate the Future" in Toronto
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 23:31:49 -0400

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Leading Bioethicists to "Debate the Future" in Toronto

Renowned Canadian bioethicist Margaret Somerville and controversial US 
bioethicist James Hughes will address genetic engineering, cloning, life 
extension and nanotechnology during a debate coinciding with the 61st World 
Science Fiction Convention, held this year in Toronto

Should we genetically engineer a better human mind and body? Should we use 
cloning to reproduce? Should we strive for radical life extension? Should we 
seek the benefits of nanotechnology despite the risks?

On Friday, August 29, 2003, members of the public can learn more about these 
issues at "Debating the Future: Bioethics from Science Fiction to Science 
Fact," an event organized by Betterhumans that is being held at the J.J.R. 
MacLeod Auditorium at the University of Toronto. The event coincides with 
the 61st World Science Fiction Convention, held this year in Toronto.

The debate will feature Margaret Somerville, the founding director of the 
Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law at McGill University and the 
internationally known author of The Ethical Canary: Science, Society and the 
Human Spirit.

Somerville will be debating James Hughes, who teaches health policy at 
Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, is a leading thinker in 
"transhuman" bioethics and is the author of Cyborg Democracy: Free, Equal 
and United in the Posthuman World, to be published in 2004.

Moderating the debate will be journalist Tim Falconer, author of Watchdogs 
and Gadflies: Activism from Marginal to Mainstream, a book about Canadian 
activists.

Tickets to the event are $20 in advance and $25 at the door (all figures 
Canadian). Attendees will receive an information-packed booklet providing 
background on each of the issues.

To purchase tickets and learn more about the event, including media coverage 
and sponsorship opportunities, visit 
http://www.betterhumans.com/Events/Debating_the_Future/.

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