Enhancement Technologies and Human Identity Meeting 6

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July 23rd-24th, 1999, McGill University, Biomedical Ethics Unit Conference Room, 3690 Peel Street, Montreal H3A 1W9, Phone: 514-398-6980

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Friday 23rd July

The Politics of Being (Enhanced)
2:45
Kathy Glass
TBA
4:00
Margaret Lock
Transcending Mortality: Organ Transplants and the Practice of Contradictions

Saturday 24th July

General themes for discussion
2-4
Discussion of papers and book
Viewing and discussion of "Seconds", a film by John Frankenheimer addressing issues of enhancement and identity

Meeting participants

Francoise Baylis, Dalhousie University, E-mail: fbaylis@tupdean1.med.dal.ca

Tod Chambers, Northwestern University, E-mail: t-chambers@nwu.edu

Alice Dreger, Michigan State University, E-mail: dreger@pilot.msu.edu

Carl Elliott, University of Minnesota, E-mail: ellio023@tc.umn.edu

Kathleen Glass, McGill University and the Montreal Children's Hospital, E-mail: Glass_k@falaw.lan.mcgill.ca

Laurence Kirmayer, McGill University, E-mail: cylk@musica.mcgill.ca

Margaret Lock, McGill University, E-mail: cy61@musica.mcgill.ca

Unable to attend

David Gems, University College London, E-mail: dgems@galton.ucl.ac.uk

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