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On the Eve of Human Cloning

October 28, 2004

MAIN SESSION
11 am - 1:00 pm
Main Auditorium

A moderated panel discussion will occur from 11:00 am-12:30 pm, followed by a question and answer session from 12:30-1:00 pm.

MODERATOR

Bernice Hausman
Departments of English and Women's Studies, Virginia Tech; author of Changing Sex: Transsexualism, Technology, and the Idea of Gender and Mother’s Milk: Breastfeeding Controversies in American Culture and other works on sexed embodiment, feminist and gender theory, and cultural studies of medicine.

PANELISTS

Wendy Goldman Rohm
Investigative journalist and author of The Eighth Day: On the Front Lines of Stem Cell Research and the Countdown to a Human Clone (forthcoming) and “Seven Days of Creation: The inside story of a human cloning experiment” in Wired (Jan 2004); winner of numerous awards for her investigations into the anti-trust case against Microsoft.

Barbara Katz Rothman
Department of Sociology, City University of New York; author of In Labor: Women and Power in the Birthplace; Recreating Motherhood: Ideology and Technology in a Patriarchal Society; The Book of Life: A Personal and Ethical Guide to Race, Normality, and the Implications of the Human Genome Project; and other works on procreation, midwifery, new reproductive technologies and bioethics.

Lee Silver
Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University; member of the Program in Science, Technology & Environmental Policy, the Center for Health and Well-being, and the Office of Population Research at the Woodrow Wilson School of Pulblic and International Affairs; author of Remaking Eden: How Genetic Engineering and Cloning Will Transform the American Family and Challenging Mother Nature: Biotechnology in a Spiritual World (forthcoming); current reviewer for U.S. governmental position papers on cloning and stem cells.

Lee Zwanziger
Senior Research Analyst, President’s Council on Bioethics; adjunct professor, Science and Technology Studies at Virginia Tech; former study director at the National Academies’ Institute of Medicine, on projects ranging from institutional review boards and data privacy to the anthrax vaccine; author of works on the mutual influences at the intersection of science, philosophy and public policy, focusing on biomedical issues.

 

PANEL AND AUDIENCE QUESTION & ANSWER SESSION
12:30 - 1:00 pm
Main Auditorium

Continue the conversation with the panelists and other audience members

 



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Project Directors: Eileen Crist & Daniel Breslau
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