Is there an Acceptable Face of Cloning?
Saturday 7 April 4pm - 5.20pm
Venue: Royal Museum, Chambers Street, Edinburgh
Forget the Boys from Brazil. What about cloning human
embryos ... then reprogramming them to make cells for treating
Parkinson's Disease? What are human stem cells, and what's it got to do
with Dolly the sheep? Is the Government right to say "yes" to using
embryos as resources? Some of the world's top experts explain one of the
hottest growth areas in science, and debate its controversial ethics.
Professor Ian Wilmut, leader of the Roslin Institute's cloning research
Dr Austin Smith, Centre for Genome Research, University of Edinburgh,
researcher in human stem cells
Professor Alastair Campbell, Centre of
Medical Ethics at Bristol University, member of the Donaldson Committee
Chair: Dr Donald Bruce, Society, Religion and Technology Project, Church of Scotland
Ticket prices (Full price/Concession): £5.00 / £3.00 Bookings
Does Nature Know Best?
Monday 16 April, 6 pm - 7 pm
Venue: Royal Museum, Chambers Street, Edinburgh
Who says nature is always safer and better than human
technology? Is nature just our material environment or something sacred?
Is science under threat from back to nature ideas and what is the proper
place of the religious dimension to nature? How far should humans
intervene? Are we "playing God" with technologies like GM food, and does
organic really mean better?
A debate on the place of nature with
Rev Dr Michael Northcott, environmental theologian, University of Edinburgh.
Dr Donald Bruce, Society, Religion and Technology Project, Church of Scotland
[please note : this is a change of speaker]
Chair: Professor John Eldridge Professor of Sociology, University of Glasgow
Ticket prices (Full price/Concession): £5.00 / £3.00
Accelerating Ourselves to Death
Tuesday 17 April, 6 pm - 7 pm
Venue: Royal Museum, Chambers Street, Edinburgh
Is faster always better? We take for granted that speed is
great - less time spent travelling or surfing the net, and instant
global communications. Yet job stress, traffic congestion and internet
overload present self-defeating ironies. Is it really such a good idea,
and what is it doing to us as human beings? At what point does
transport and communications technology run haywire with the basic
rhythms of life? Somewhere, sometime, there has to be a limit.
A debate with Professor David Pullinger, Middlesex University, expert at the human-computer interface and
Professor John Adams, University College London, risk and transport expert
Chair: Dr Donald Bruce, Society, Religion and Technology Project, Church of Scotland
Ticket prices (Full price/Concession): £5.00 / £3.00
SRT Director Dr Donald Bruce is also chairing a lecture on risk and the common factors which underlie disasters, "O Misery, Misery", by Professor Hugh Pennington of Aberdeen University, who chaired the Lanark EColi 0157 inquiry.
Thursday 12 April, 6 pm - 7 pm
Venue: Royal Museum, Chambers Street, Edinburgh
Bookings and Further Information
Bookings
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Or book direct by filling in a Booking Form On-line
For More about the Events
Email SRT : mailto:srtp@srtp.org.uk
or send an ordinary letter or fax to :
Dr.Donald M.Bruce,
Society, Religion and Technology Project,
, 121 George Street, Edinburgh, EH2 4YN, Scotland.
tel. +44 (0)131-240 2250, fax +44 (0)131-240 2239,
email address : srtp@srtp.org.uk
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