Meetings & Events

Fall 2007 Bioethics Film Series

Topic: Wildlife, Wilderness, and Human Values

Thursdays 5:15-8:15pm in LSE 104

August 30th: Varmints

September 27th: Counting Sheep

October 25th: Mosquito Coast

November 29th: Grizzly Man

October 16th

Tuesday October 16th at 4:30 we will be meeting to discuss Ashley X. Here's a short news article by Art Caplan:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16472931/

Please join us in LSE-232 for an interesting discussion and cookies!!

October 30th

Tuesday October 30th at 4:00pm we will be meeting to discuss post-traumatic stress disorder and

research on medicines to "erase" these traumatizing memories.

November 16th

On Friday November 16th we will be meeting to discuss cochlear implants and their ethical implications.

Our speaker will be Dr. Michael Chorost who received a cochlear implant in 2001. To learn more about Dr. Chorost

check out his memoir"Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human" or his article in Wired.

Time and location TBA.

November 30th

On Friday November 30th we will be having breakfast with Carol Greider, a molecular biologist, from

Johns Hopkins Medical Institute. She is an expert on telomeres and telomerase which plays a role in cancer.

Time and location TBA.

Discussion with Nathaniel Comfort

Friday September 28th 2007

12:30 - 1:30 pm

Life Sciences E - wing Room 232

Lunch Provided

Please RSVP to Nicole Newkirk at Nicole.Newkirk@asu.edu  by September 24th.


Nathaniel Comfort's research interests include history of biology, with a great interest in genetics, molecular biology and biomedicine.  He is currently studying the history of human and medical genetics in America during the 1950s and 1960s in order to evaluate how genetics became such an important element in today's biomedicine.