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2007 Bioethics Symposium ----------------------------------Biotechnology and Human Rights:::--------------------Industry's Responsibility?

On April 17, at KGI’s 2007 Bioethics Symposium, a distinguished group of academic, industry and media leaders gathered to discuss biotechnology’s human rights obligations.       

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Welcome and Introduction

Sheldon M. Schuster
President, Keck Graduate Institute

Gary A. Cohen (PowerPoint Slides)
Jacobs Visiting Professor

Biotechnology and the Emerging Human Rights Framework

Alexander Capron (Powerpoint Slides)
USC Gould School of Law

Lisa Conte
Napo Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

A “Reorientation” – from Bioethics to Human Rights?

Ruth Macklin (PowerPoint Slides)
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Rosario Isasi (PowerPoint Slides)
Université de Montreal

Josephine Johnston
The Hastings Center

The Corporation and its Obligations

Chris MacDonald (PowerPoint Slides)
Saint Mary’s University

Michael Santoro (PowerPoint Slides)
Rutgers Business School

John B. “Jack” Douglas
Green Hills Software

Human Rights for Redesigned Humans

Gregory Stock
UCLA School of Public Health

Stephen Marks (PowerPoint Slides)
Harvard School of Public Health

Ronald Bailey
Reason Magazine

Brian Keeley
Pitzer College

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  Readings in Biotechnolgy and Human Rights

 

___Developments in human biotechnology continue at an often astounding pace. As the significant benefits offered by these new techniques are becoming clear, so too are the concerns they raise for many people in terms of respect for human life and human dignity.  Human rights have an important role to play in dealing with these issues by providing a framework through which the rights of all interested actors can be taken into account.
— United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights