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Designing Humans: A Human Rights Approach

November 27, 2017 - 12:00 pm

Seminar on Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of Genetics

Center for Research on Ethical/Legal/Social Implications of Psychiatric, Neurologic & Behavioral Genetics

Department of Psychiatry

 

Monday, November 27, 2017 12:00-1:00pm

Rm. 405A and B, Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research

10th Floor, Presbyterian Hospital (PH) Building

622 W. 168th Street

 

Designing Humans:  A Human Rights Approach

 Matthew Liao, PhD

Arthur Zitrin Professor of Bioethics

Director of the Center for Bioethics

New York University

 

Advances in genomic technologies such as CRISPR-Cas9, mitochondrial replacement techniques, and in vitro gametogenesis may soon give us more precise and efficient tools to have children with certain traits such as beauty, intelligence, athleticism, and so on. The prospect of being able to shape and determine the characteristics of human offspring raises the question of whether it is morally permissible to do so. In this talk, I explore a new approach to reproductive genetic engineering, a Human Rights Approach.

 

Upcoming Presentations

December 18th – Ruth Ottman, PhD, Depts. of Epidemiology and Neurology & Sergievsky Center, CUMC

January 8th – Rayna Rapp, PhD, Dept. of Anthropology, NYU

February 12th – Sharon Schwartz, PhD, Dept. of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health

March 19th – Gail Geller, PhD, Dept. of Medicine & Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns

Hopkins University

April 16th – Vence Bonham, Jr., JD, Office of the Director and Social & Behavioral Research

Branch, NHGRI

May 18th – Robert Krueger, PhD, Dept. of Psychology, University of Minnesota

 

To convey suggestions about future speakers, contact Paul S. Appelbaum, MD, Director, Center for Research on Ethical/Legal/Social Implications of Psychiatric, Neurologic & Behavioral Genetics, Department of Psychiatry, at 646-774-8630 or psa21@columbia.edu.