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Ethics for Breakfast presents
 Wednesday, Jan 11, 2011
7:15 - 8:30 am
The Ethics of
Human Enhancement:
How far will technology
go to boost our brain power?
with Mark Wexler, Endowed Professor of Business Ethics, Beedie School of Business, SFU
Do human enhancements reduce our
authenticity and dignity?
Do you support genetic intervention techniques to make children smarter and healthier? Would you take pills to improve your memory? What about capsules guaranteed to make you happier? Human enhancement is the use of medicine, technology and techniques to improve human capacities beyond what most people would consider normal or healthy.
Today, the private sector develops and markets non-therapeutic goods and services to boost human performance in many arenas, from the physical and sexual to the cognitive.
What ethical issues arise from the sale and use of cognitive enhancers? What risks and consequences might we face from more powerful human enhancement methods developed in the future? What regulatory approach is best suited for enhancement medicine?
Join Mark Wexler, a Professor of Business Ethics at Simon Fraser University, as he focuses on cognitive enhancement and related ethical risks. A free market of unfettered technology, bent on enhancing the competitive power of the human mind, could lead to unfair practices and social disruption. Mark will reveal why it's important that we know who controls the technologies of human enhancement and what governance system is used to develop and license them.
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DATE: Wednesday, Jan 11 -- 7:15-8:30 am
LOCATION: BC HYDRO Building
333 Dunsmuir Street, Vancouver
2nd Floor, Board Room
Check-in at Security Desk - Main floor lobby
COST: Members - $7.00 Non-Members - $10.00
- muffins, tea and coffee included
- RSVP requested (if possible)
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About Our Speaker:
Mark N. Wexler is Endowed Professor in Business Ethics and Management at Simon Fraser University's Beedie School of Business, and president of The Perimeter Group of Ethics Consultants and trainers. For over three decades, he has studied the ethical challenges that people face in the business world and the human use (and abuse) of humans in highly competitive contexts.
Mark is a four-time teaching award winner and a recipient of the PricewaterhouseCoopers "Leadership in Management Education" Award. He was the Astra-Zeneca ethics scholar-in-residence at McGill University and a visiting professor at the Universities of Michigan, Macquarie (Sydney, Australia) and ESCM (Tours/France).
Mark is the author of 100+ refereed journal articles and eight books, including his most recent from Edward Elgar Press, Understanding Corporate Scandals: Who are those Monsters? (2008), and Leadership in Context: The Four Faces of Capitalism (2005).
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