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James Hughes Ph.D. Trinity College in Hartford Connecticut where he teaches Health Policy and serves as Associate Director of Institutional Research and Planning. He holds a doctorate in sociology from the University of Chicago, where he also taught bioethics at the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics. Dr. Hughes is author of Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Future Cyborg Buddha Changesurfer Radio .
Dr. Hughes was briefly ordained as a Buddhist monk in Sri Lanka in 1984 while working for the Buddhist development organization Sarvodaya Shramadana. He founded and edited the international newsletter Doctor-Patient Studies (1991-1995) which reviewed research on the doctor-patient relationship, the focus of his doctoral research. He also edited the Chicago student newspaper Grey City Journal , the national student magazine The Activist , and the international ‘zine EcoSocialist Review .
He is a Fellow of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities and the Working Group on Ethics and Technology at Yale University.
Dr. Hughes speaks on medical ethics, health care policy and future studies worldwide, and appears often radio and television.
Dr. Hughes is available for media interviews.
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Books
Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Future by James Hughes (2004)
Articles
"On Democratic Transhumanism" Re-Public Jun 24, 2009
"Moral Relativism vs. Moral Authority" Ethical Technology Jun 5, 2009
"Toward a Technoprogressive Manifesto" Ethical Technology May 30, 2009
"Five Major Changes to American Life By 2020" Ethical Technology May 21, 2009
"Choosing Our Imaginary Communities and Identities" Ethical Technology May 18, 2009
"Embodiment, Compassion and Secular Ethics" Ethical Technology Apr 16, 2009
"Transhumanist politics, 1700 to the near future" Re-Public Apr 10, 2009
"Human Enhancement & Nanotechnology Liveblogging Part 1" Ethical Technology Mar 28, 2009
"Strengthening Transnational Governance to Mitigate Risks" Accelerating Future Dec 8, 2008
"Libertopian Doublethink on the Singularity" Ethical Technology Oct 27, 2008
"Review: Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population" Times Higher Education Jun 9, 2008
"Millennial Tendencies in Responses to Apocalyptic Threats" in Global Catastrophic Risks eds. Nick Bostrom and Milan M. Cirkovic. Oxford University Press. 2008. pgs 72-89 Apr 14, 2008
"Postgenderism: Beyond the Gender Binary (IEET White Paper 03)" IEET White Paper Series Mar 20, 2008
"Pondering the Future of Death Over A Mojito" New Scientist Dec 7, 2007
"Promoting BioFuturist Policy Brainstorming Among the Young" Ethical Technology Nov 30, 2007
"Virtue Engineering" People Database Nov 20, 2007
"Waiting for the Great Leap…Forward?" People's Database Nov 2, 2007
"Situationist Challenge to Cyborg Buddhism?" Ethical Technology Oct 22, 2007
"Technocitizenship, innovation and the biopolitics of medical devices" (an edited version was published in Medical Device Daily) Sep 26, 2007
"The struggle for a smarter world" Futures 39(8) Oct 2007: 942-954 Aug 8, 2007
"Global Technology Regulation and Potentially Apocalyptic Technological Threats" forthcoming in Nanoethics: The Ethical and Social Implications of Nanotechnology Jul 2, 2007
"Ensuring Universal Access to Enhancing Technologies" Ethical Technology Jun 27, 2007
"Sex Selection and Women’s Reproductive Rights" Ethical Technology May 10, 2007
"Hacia nuevas formas de trans-espiritualidad" Tendencias21 Apr 18, 2007
"On The Compatibility of Religion and Transhumanism" Global Spiral 8(2) Apr 1, 2007
"Buddhist Bioethics" Principles of Health Care Ethics, Second Edition Edited by R.E. Ashcroft, A. Dawson, H. Draper and J.R. McMillan. John Wiley. Mar 9, 2007
"Christology and the Human Body" Ethical Technology Mar 6, 2007
"From Virtual Sex to No Sex?" Ethical Technology Feb 28, 2007
"Left BioCon Futurist Scenario Building" Ethical Technology Feb 26, 2007
"Träumen mit Diderot" Telepolis (in German and English) Feb 1, 2007
"Dreaming with Diderot" Cyborg Democracy Jan 14, 2007
"What comes after humans?" New Scientist Nov 16, 2006
"Human Enhancement and the Emergent Technopolitics of the 21st Century (excerpt)" in Managing Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno Innovations: Converging Technologies in Society edited by Bainbridge, W.S. & M.C. Roco. 2006. Springer May 19, 2006
"Beyond the medical model of gender dysphoria to morphological self-determination" Lahey Clinic Medical Ethics Journal, Winter 2006 Apr 1, 2006
"Saving Human Rights from the Human Racists" Betterhumans Mar 27, 2006
"The Illusiveness Of Immortality" Death And Anti-Death, Volume 3 Feb 17, 2006
"Universal Health Care Vouchers" Ethical Technology Feb 2, 2006
"Technoprogressive Social Policy in the Wake of Katrina" Ethical Technology Sep 10, 2005
"BIG and Generational Equity in an Automated and Life-Extended Future" presented at USBIG 2005 May 7, 2005
"Drawing a Stem Cell Line in the Sand" Betterhumans Jan 12, 2005
"Transhumanism and Unitarian Universalism: Beginning the Dialogue" Unitarian Universalist Society East Dec 13, 2004
"A Conversation with Dr. James Hughes" WorldChanging Dec 1, 2004
"Human Enhancement on the Agenda" BetterHumans Oct 31, 2004
"Cover Everyone and Cure Aging: Counterintuitive answers to healthcare inflation" BetterHumans Oct 13, 2004
"Technologies of Self-Perfection" Betterhumans Sep 22, 2004
"Engineering Better Citizens" Betterhumans Sep 1, 2004
"Humanism for personhood: against human-racism: a new fight for human rights" Free Inquiry Jun 1, 2004
"George W. Bush Is Getting Brain-jacked" Betterhumans Mar 9, 2004
"Embrace the End of Work" Betterhumans Feb 24, 2004
"The Death of Death" in Brain Death and Disorders of Consciousness. 2004. eds. Calixto Machado and D. Alan Shewmon. Kluwer. pps. 79-88. Feb 10, 2004
"Monsters in the Media" Betterhumans Dec 23, 2003
"Getting Paid in Our Jobless Future" Betterhumans Sep 22, 2003
"Beyond Gay Marriage" Betterhumans Jul 23, 2003
"Reconciling Humans, Nature and Technology" Betterhumans Apr 14, 2003
"Reconciliando humanos, natureza e tecnologia" Folha Verde Apr 14, 2003
"The Future of Sex" Betterhumans Feb 9, 2003
"Democratic Transhumanism 2.0" Transhumanity Dec 25, 2002
"Cloning As A Valid Reproductive Choice" Hartford Courant Oct 21, 2002
"The Politics of Transhumanism 2.0" Changesurfer.com Mar 1, 2002
"Medical ethics through the Star Trek lens" in Literature and Medicine 20.1 (2001) 26-38 May 7, 2001
"The Intelligent Other in Science, Fantasy and Horror Fiction, 1895 to the Present" Ethical Technology Aug 2, 1999
"Paying injection drug users to educate and recruit their peers" Quality Management in Health Care. 1999 Summer;7(4):4-12. May 7, 1999
"Birth Doctors and Death Doctors" University of Chicago Sociology Department Jul 7, 1998
"Buddhism and Abortion: A Western Approach" in Buddhism and Abortion. Editor: Damien Keown. May 7, 1998
"Hirntod und technologischer Wandel" Telepolis Jun 7, 1997
"Duplicity about Duplication: Cloning as Lens for Millenial Angst" Telepolis (in German and English) May 3, 1997
"Embracing Change with All Four Arms: A Post-Humanist Defense of Genetic Engineering" Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics Jun 1, 1996
"Den Wandel mit aller Entschlossenheit ergreifen" Telepolis May 7, 1996
"The Doctor-Patient Relationship: Does it Really Matter?" MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics Jan 28, 1996
"Aliens, Technology and Freedom: Science Fiction Consumption and Socio-Ethical Attitudes" Futures Research Quarterly, Winter, 1995, 11(4): 39-58. Nov 7, 1995
"Organization and Information at the Bedside (dissertation)" Sociology Dept., University of Chicago Nov 22, 1994
"Social Ecology and Evolutionism" Changesurfer.com Feb 5, 1994
"Beginnings and Endings: The Buddhist Mythos of the Arising and Passing Away of the World" in Buddhist Perceptions of Desirable Societies in the Future eds. Sulak Sivaraksa. IRCD: Bangkok, Thailand. 1993 Jan 3, 1993
"Better Living Through World Government:: Transnationalism as 21st Century Socialism" Chicago DSA May 7, 1991
"Monogamy as a Prisoner’s Dilemma: Non-Monogamy as a Collective Action Problem" Changesurfer.com Dec 26, 1990
"World Buddhism and the Peace Movement" Bulletin of Peace Proposals 18(3) United Nations University and Norwegian University Press: Tokyo, Japan]18(3): 449-468. Oct 7, 1987
"Buddhist Feminism" in Women & Buddhism. Toronto: Spring Wind-Buddhist Cultural Forum, Vol.6, 1986, pp. 58-79. Mar 7, 1986
"Altered States of Consciousness and Social Structure: Glossolalia in the Pentecostal Church" Oberlin College May 1, 1983
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Emergence - IEET News for June 20, 2009 Emergence - IEET News for June 7, 2009 EMERGENCE - IEET News for March 20, 2009 J. Hughes on Designer Babies in Wired J. Hughes Quoted in Article on Wired Website EMERGENCE - IEET News for Feb 6, 2009 Update on Humanity+ Board Elections Emergence - IEET News for Dec 26, 2008 EMERGENCE - IEET News for Dec 8, 2008 Hughes Praises Art Caplan in Discover Magazine George’s notes on Cyborg Buddha presentation at Convergence EMERGENCE - IEET News for Nov 9, 2008 Emergence - IEET News for October 2008 Hughes on Catastrophic Risks in the Boston Globe Emergence - IEET News for Sept 2, 2008 Hughes, de Grey and Scarlato featured in Hartford Advocate EMERGENCE - IEET News for July 31, 2008 Some Pics from the Catastrophic Risk Conference at Oxford IEET News for June 14, 2008 Emergence - IEET News for May 15, 2008 Emergence - IEET News for May 1, 2008 The Past and Future of Evolution Hughes Talk on H+ & Religion top-rated at Thoughtware.tv Discussion Forums, Commenting and Collaborative Thinktankery Ashley X’s Parents Declare Treatment a Success Longevity Dividend Course: April 21-June 29 IEET is 501c3 Tax-Exempt and Tax-Deductible “Technoprogressive” popular among transhumanists $25,000 “Matching Grant” Drive for WTA Thousands of Evo Art Portraits of Hughes and Bostrom Spring IEET Distance Learning Course on the Longevity Dividend Hughes on Saving Humanity in Spain Hughes and Bostrom profiled in German review of H+ History Hughes, Bostrom Respond to Agar in Hastings Center Report Hughes interview on Radio Netherlands transcribed AAAS Report Human Enhancement (w/ a dose of Hughes) WaPo profiles Houghton and Hughes on heart assist devices Hughes in Business Week on obligation to cognitive enhancement Partial transcript of Hughes on Cyborgs at TV07 Hughes and Bostrom quoted in WaPo on sports doping Bailey reports on IEET Longevity Dividend seminar Cyborg Buddha News in Review Journal of Evolution and Technology June 2007, 16(1): Contents H+ and Hughes in Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel and Hastings Center Report Betterhumans Relaunching With IEET Columnists IEET Launches Cyborg Buddha Project H+ in the context of the Evolution v. Religion Debate Welcome to new IEET interns IEET Web Viewage Climbing IEET Cyborg Life Project IEET Book Projects Hughes, Kurzweil & Clarke on enhancement politics in 2012 Ashley X, Stumbleupon, LinkedIn, XING and Bald Women Call for Papers and Early Reg for IEET-IHEU Rights Conf in NYC - May 11-13 Hughes on Paula Zahn show Monday, Jan 8 @ 8pm EST to discuss Ashley X CSPO Cognitive Enhancement Policy Seminar Report Available IEET & IHEU Event at United Nations on Cognitive Liberty A Great Success Changes in the IEET communications strategy Hughes, Bostrom, de Grey & Campa in Italian documentary Hughes quoted on virtue engineering of marriage Hughes quoted on cell-phone implants Pursuing the Longevity Dividend: Scientific Goals for an Aging World Hughes speaks at remarkable left-right seminar in Stockholm Hughes on the Rumble in Albany Hughes quoted by Christian Science Monitor Audio of IEET Programs talk in SL online Christian Bioethics Group Denounces NIH Funding of Enhancement Ethics Hughes participates in cognitive enhancement consultation for Sandia Labs Misanthropic deep ecology, existential risks and TechnoGaianism Majorities of Americans support universal healthcare, tech-pro policies IEET Convergencia in Madrid Rockin the Boskone Hughes, Rothblatt and de Grey slides online from Immortality conference in Atlanta Nanotechnology: Societal Implications Hughes, Joy, Ishiguro and Wilson on NPR Book Program IEET.org Reopens! Hughes to Address Hartford Drug Conference, Oct 22 Bostrom, Hughes and Prisco address Congress on Technology and Europe, Madrid, October 6, 2005 Naam on Berkeley Groks, Wasserman on Control of Emotion Changesurfer Radio: Critical Bio-Art Hughes speaks at Secular Students Association - Columbus Ohio - Aug 11-14, 2005 Hughes speaks at APLS Sept 1 and visiting D.C. Aug 31 - Sept 3 Treder & Hughes Participate in Terasem Meeting July 20, 2005 Terasem talks webcast Naam and Hughes Named Fellows of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences Report on Hughes’ April 13 talk in Albany Past Appearances
Hughes on “Science & Technology for Liberation” @ Think Galacticon The Case for Perfection Hughes, Glenn @ Human Enhancement & Nanotechnology Hughes, Scarlato on “The Ethics of Battlestar Galactica” Wallach on the role of reason in moral decisions Hughes on Ethics in Business and the Health Care Industry Hughes on “The Problems with Happiness” Hughes on “BioPolitics and the Technoprogressive Agenda: Yes We Can!” Hughes, LaTorra, Fauve, Cascio, Treder @ Convergence 08 GLOBAL CATASTROPHIC RISKS: Building a Resilient Civilization Hughes @ Science, Christianity & the New Frontiers of Human Life The Ethics of Human-Animal Chimera Research: Fact or Fiction Hughes on “Gene Therapy and Neurotechnologies to Enhance Human Virtues” Creating Ethically Sensitive Machines for Medical Use Hughes on The Future of Death Hughes, Bostrom, Treder, Cirkovic @ Global Catastrophic Risks Conference Hughes @ World Humanist Congress Hughes, Bainbridge @ The Future of Religions/Religions of the Future Hughes @ Evolution in the 21st Century Hughes @ Center for Inquiry Hughes on Future Neurotech for Future Problem Solvers Hughes on FastForward Radio Hughes @ Macalester College Hughes @ The Future of our Species - evolution, disease and sustainable development Hughes & François Berger on Human Enhancement Hughes @ Lawrence University Hughes @ Stem Cell Summit Hughes addresses CT Assoc of Biology Teachers Hughes, Cascio @ Singularity Summit II Hughes, de Grey, Bostrom and more @ Transvision 2007 Securing the Longevity Dividend: Building the Campaign for Anti-Aging Science Hughes @ Global Biotechnology Governance: Ethical and Political Challenges Hughes, Bostrom @ Progressive Bioethics Summit 21st CENTURY RIGHTS Seminar on Transhumanism and Religion in Second Life Hughes on H+ & Human Nature Hughes,Glenn @ Nano & Human Enhancement Hughes v. Murray: How Far Should We Go in Redesigning Humanity?” Hughes on Enhancement @ ET Baptist University Hughes @ St. Scholastica on Enhancement Hughes on Cognitive Liberty Hughes speaks at Ethics Ed Conf Hughes on “Liberty in the Neurotech Era” at UPenn Hughes on Liberty, Equality, Technology Hughes to speak at ASBH Politics & Bioethics Conf Hughes speaks at Idea City Hughes on enhancement - UC Santa Cruz Hughes on ‘Politics of Human Enhancement’ Bostrom, Hughes, de Grey at Human Enhancement Hughes, Prisco, Treder & de Grey at Conf on Sci-Tech Hughes speaks in Seattle IEET Director Hughes to speak at Re-Inventing Capitalism Lecture on “Citizen Cyborg” by Dr Hughes IEET Director Hughes Hughes speaks in Prague
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