CHAIR
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SPEAKER
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Rick Weiss, Reporter, Washington Post
Eric Meslin, PhD, Director, Indiana Univ. Center for Bioethics
Sandy Thomas, PhD, Director of Foresight, Department of Trade & Industry
William Hurlbut, MD, Professor, Stanford Univ. Medical Center Neuroscience Institute
Description
This session takes a multidisciplinary and international approach to critically examining the bioethics of human embryonic stem cell research.
Objectives:
Promoting greater international discourse on the bioethics of stem cell research.
Comparing cultural and political attitudes toward therapeutic stem cell research and development.
Probing the underlying factors leading to public acceptance or rejection of stem cell research.