A decade into the biotech century, scientific discoveries and technological innovations are transforming the nature of biomedicine and revolutionizing the expectations for biotechnology. A new medicine that moves beyond therapy to enhancement presents both opportunities and perils. Beyond Therapy: Exploring Enhancement and Human Futures probes these possibilities. What do these imply for the future of our individual and common humanity?
Plenary Speakers
Thursday, July 15
- Embodiment, Biotechnology, and Human Dignity - William Hurlbut, MD
Friday, July 16
- Physicians, Patients, and Other Endangered Species: Late Modern Medicine and Bioethics - Brent Waters, DPhil
- Virtual Paradise? Being Human in a World of Digitized Reality and Artificial Life - Michael J. Sleasman, PhD
- Race and The New Biocitizen - Dorothy Roberts, JD
Saturday, July 17
- New Medicine and the Pursuit of Superhealth - William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD
- Regenerative Medicine - Maureen Condic, PhD
- Mommy Mistakes? Bioethics and the Rhetoric of Shame - Amy Laura Hall, PhD
- Panel Discussion - Maureen Condic, Amy Laura Hall, and William Hurlbut
Parallel Papers
Friday, July 16
- Bioethical Perspectives on Embryo Donation/Embryo Adoption - William Cutrer, MD, MA
- The Changing Conscience of Healthcare: Vows vs. Laws in the Anatomy of a Profession - Susan Haack, MD, MA
- Next Generation Ethics Committees - Jessica Minor, PhD student
- Everyday Bioethics: An Introduction to CBHD's Church Bioethics Network - Sarah Flashing, MA
- Human Germline Genetic Enhancement and C.S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man - Steven A. Phillips, MD
- Health-Care Ethics: A Comprehensive Christian Resource - James R. Thobaben, PhD, MPH
- Enhanced Dying: Exploring the Dangers of Palliative Care moving Beyond Therapy - Ryan R. Nash, MD
- Teaching Ethics to Family Medicine Residents: The Sioux City Experience - Thor Swanson, MD
- Understanding the Issues Underlying Patient Capacity in Individuals with Traumatic Brain Injury - Doublas C. Swift, Chaplain, and Joseph R. Jeffries, Chaplain
- 23 and Free or How Virtue Challenges the Myth of Genetic Determinism - Eric Spaulding, MA
Saturday, July 17
- Nanobiotech & Ideology Critique - Janne Nikkinen, ThD
- Would Treatment According to Depreciation be Ethically Distinct from Rationing? A Renal Paradigm - Gregory Rutecki, MD
- Children at What Cost? Examining the Conflict Between Parental Desire and Risks of Assisted Reproductive Technologies of Offspring - Kirsten Riggan, MA
- Taking Another Stab': Rethinking the Killing vs. Letting Die Distinction for the Euthanasia Debate - Patrick Smith, PhD (Cand.)
- The Promise of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Research - An Ethical Alternative to Embryonic Stem Cell Technology - Gary Elkins, PhD
- Human Free Will and its Relationship to Bioethics - Dennis Sullivan, MD
- Worship, Death, and Healthcare - David Luy
Special Event
- Hollywood Bioethics - Read Schuchardt, PhD
Courses
- Intensive Bioethics Institute - Paige C. Cunningham, JD
- Advanced Bioethics Institute - David Fletcher, PhD
- Medicine and the New Healthcare Paradigm Institute - Gregory Rutecki, MD and Donal O'Mathuna, PhD
- Pre-Med/Undergraduate Bioethics Institute - Joyce Shelton, PhD
- Undergraduate/Graduate Wrap-Around Course - Ferdinand D. Yates, Jr., MD
- Graduate Wrap-Around Course - Hans Madueme, MD, PhD Candidate and Dennis Hollinger, PhD
- Post-Conference Seminar: Bioethics and Moral Theology - Michael J. Sleasman, PhD
- Post-Conference Seminar: Biolaw - Mailee Smith, JD and William L. Saunders, Jr., JD
