2003 Edinburgh International Science Festival
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What Should our Genes be Used For?
Monday April 14, 8:00 - 9:00 p.m.
The potential of the Human Genome is tremendous ... but what will it really deliver?
Will decisions be influenced more by corporate patents than hospital patients?
Sir John Sulston, Nobel Laureate and former Director of the Sanger Genome Centre, and
Georgina Ferry, authors of The Common Thread, argue for free distribution of genetic information
Royal Museum of Scotland, Chambers Street
Organised by the Society Religion and Technology Project
Sponsored by the Medical Research Council
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The Search for Human Perfection
Tuesday April 22, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
50 years after unravelling the DNA helix, what are the frontiers of human potential?
Why not use performance enhancing drugs or genetic enhancement?
Or is this playing God?
Prof. David Porteous, Professor of Medical Genetics, Edinburgh University
Dr Arthur Stewart, Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Science, Aberdeen University
Dr Donald Bruce, Society, Religion and Technology Project, Church of Scotland
Royal Society of Edinburgh, George Street, Edinburgh
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Tickets £6/£4, Science Festival Box Office
The Hub, Castle Hill, Edinburgh EH1 2ME
0131-473 2070
www.sciencefestival.co.uk
Organised by the Society Religion and Technology Project
srtp@srtp.org.uk http://www.srtp.org.uk
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Society, Religion and Technology Project,
John Knox House, 45 High Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1SR, Scotland.
tel. +44 (0)131-240 2250, fax +44 (0)131-240 2239,
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