GELP Activities and Events
August 2001 - July 2002
Events listed in reverse chronological order for each category:
Programs Sponsored by GELP
July 19, 2002
Cloning and Beyond: The Scientific, Ethical and Policy Issues Raised by Advances in Human Genomics
GELP Summer Institute 2002
A workshop for teachers
May 22, 2002
Genetic Testing in Minors: Family Issues
GELP Faculty Colloquium
Allyn McConkie-Rosell, PhD, CGC
April 16, 2002
The Patient in the Family
GELP Faculty Colloquium
Hilde Nelson, PhD
Center for the Study of Medical Ethics and Humanities
March 4, 2002
Ethical Issues Regarding The Use of Cryopreserved Embryos for Genetic Research
GELP Faculty Colloquium
Anne Lyerly, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Duke University Medical Center
February 21, 2002
The Science and Regulation of Genetically Modified Foods
GELP Faculty Colloquium
James Siedow, PhD, Vice Provost for Research, Jonathan Wiener, JD, Professor, Schools of Law and Environment, Duke University
January 30, 2002
Democracy, Ethics, and Genomics
Michael M. Burgess, PhD, Chair in Biomedical Ethics, University of British Columbia Centre for Applied Ethics
January 17, 2002
Respectfully Destroying Early Human Life: An Oxymoron or An Objective?
GELP Faculty Colloquium
James Nelson, PhD, visiting professor in the Center for the Study of Medical Ethics and Humanities
January 8, 2002
Genes, Drugs, Money, and People: Some Policy Issues Emerging From Genomics
Robert Cook-Deegan, MD
Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences
December 7, 2001
To Form a More Perfect Union: Marriage Laws, Prenatal Testing, and Eugenics in America
GELP Faculty Colloquium
Amy Laura Hall, PhD, Assistant Professor, Duke'
s Divinity School
November 29, 2001
Genomic Medicine in the Real World
Ellen Wright Clayton, MD, JD, Vanderbilt University Schools of Medicine and Law
November 8, 2001
Developing Technologies: Blending Law, Ethics, and Policy
Michael 'Buz' Waitzkin, JD, LLM, Firm of FoxKiser
October 18, 2001
The Second Enclosure Movement? Fencing Off The Genome
GELP Faculty Colloquium
James Boyle, JD, Professor, Duke Law School
August 23-25, 2001
Genetics, Genomics and the Law
GELP Summer Institute
A three-day teaching institute on a variety of topics, including ownership of the human genome, genetic privacy, genetic enhancement, genetic discrimination, DNA databanks and the criminal justice system, and other issues in genomics.
August 16, 2001
Patent Law and Ownership of the Human Genome
GELP Faculty Colloquium:
Karen Magri, PhD, JD, Patent Attorney and Lecturing Fellow, Duke Law School
Programs Co-Sponsored by GELP
March 7, 2002
Colored Bodies: Henrietta Lacks and the HeLa Cells, A Documentary Work-In-Progress
Informal gathering with the filmmaker Charlene Gilbert, documentary filmmaker Co-sponsored with Duke' s Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies, The John Hope Franklin Center, The John Hope Franklin Discussion Group, The Program for African and African American Studies, Women's Studies, Program in Film and Video, and The Institute of African American Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
November 14, 2001
Twilight of the Golds
FOCUS 2001: Health Care and Society Program' s Readers Co-sponsored with the Center for the Study of Medical Ethics and Humanities
October 10, 2001
Debates in Biomedicine
NC Association for Biomedical Research Fourth Annual Debate in BioMedicine
James Siedow, PhD (panelist)
Co-sponsored with the NC Association for Biomedical Research, NCSSM, and the NC Biotechnology Center
Programs Involving GELP Members
July 11, 2002
Evolution, Probability and Indeterminism
Lecture at the University of Bielefeld
Alex Rosenberg, PhD
Germany
July 10-12, 2002
Types of Genetic Testing
Marcy Speer, PhD
Ethical Issues
Jeremy Sugarman, MD, MPH, MA
Genetics Interdisciplinary Faculty Training (GIFT) Program, Duke University
Lauren Dame, JD, MPH (panelist)
June 28, 2002
Will Genomics do More for Metaphysics Than Locke?
Lecture at the University of Washington
Alex Rosenberg, PhD
April 30, 2002
Humanity, Identity and the Threat Of Bio-Slavery: Genetics, Race and Law
2001-2001 Seminars for Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities
Priscilla Wald, PhD
Sponsored by the John Hope Franklin Institute
March 23, 2002
Good Ideas and Human Welfare (intellectual property issues raised by genomics)
Lecture at the University of Cape Town
Alex Rosenberg, PhD
Cape Town, South Africa
March 6, 2002
Debate on the Social Implications of the Genomics Revolution
Elizabeth Kiss, DPhil (panelist)
Sponsored by the Center for Health Ethics and Policy and the Merrimon Lectureship, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
February 20, 2002
Good Ideas and Human Welfare
Lecture at the North Carolina School of Science and Math
Alex Rosenberg, PhD
February 11-12, 2002
Human Genome, Stem Cells, and the Medical Promise
Emerging Issues Forum
Elizabeth Kiss, DPhil (panelist)
Sponsored by North Carolina State University
January 9, 2002
Ethical Issues in Determining a Genetic Predisposition to Cancer
American Medical Writers Association
Jeremy Sugarman, MD, MPH, MA
Chapel Hill, NC
December 16, 2001
Evolutionary Ethics: Beyond the Just so Stories Ethics, Biology and Representation of Human Behavior
Alex Rosenberg, PhD
Sponsored by the Italian Institute of Philosophy, Venice, Italy
November 5, 2001
Mapping the Ethical Terrain of Stem Cell Research
Jeremy Sugarman, MD, MPH, MA
Sponsored by Duke'
s Pratt School of Engineering -Center for Emerging Cardiovascular Technologies (CECT) and the Center for Cellular and Biosurface Engineering (CCBE) Seminar
October 26-27, 2001
Genomics: Looking Into The Medical Center'
s Future
The Synergy Summit, Duke University Medical Center Elizabeth Kiss, DPhil & Pascal Goldschmidt, MD
October 12, 2001
Ethical Considerations of Stem Cell Research
Stem Cell Research: The Latest Science, the Controversy and the Coverage
Jeremy Sugarman, MD, MPH, MA
Sponsored by the NC Association for Biomedical Research, Duke University, Duke Health System, the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, the DeWitt Wallace Center for Communications and Journalism and Research/America.