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Miah @ Enhancement Medicine


Posted: May 9, 2008

Andy Miah will speak on “Enhancement as the Accumulation of Biocultural Capital” at

The Ethical and Philosophical Aspects of Enhancement Medicine

Free University of Brussels & Société pour la Philosophie de la Technique and the Centre for Inter-disciplinary Research in Bioethics (CRIB)

Brussels, May 9-10, 2008.

Preliminary program

Enhancement – aspects éthiques et philosophiques de la médecine d’amélioration

Jeudi 8 mai

19h30         Accueil des participants
19h45         Conférence inaugurale
Cocktail dînatoire

Vendredi 9 mai

Session I : Enhancement et Science-Fiction
9h00-9h50     Jérôme Goffette           Modifier les humains : anthropotechnie
(Maître de Conférence, Université Lyon I)  versus médecine
9h50-10h40   Sylvie Allouche           Aspects éthiques et philosophiques de
(Lectrice, Collège Eötvös de Budapest)    la médecine d’amélioration dans la science-fiction
10h40-11h     Pause Café

11h00-11h40       Gérard Klein           La Science-Fiction, une littérature           (Edition Robert Laffont)        prothétique

Session II Enhancement and other topics
11h40-12h30   Gilbert   Hottois                 ?
(Professeur, Université libre de Bruxelles)

12h30-14h00     Lunch

14h00-14h50     Marie-Geneviève Pinsart             ?
(Chargé de cours, Université libre de Bruxelles)
14h50-15h40     Bernard Baertschi         Devenir un être humain accompli. Idéal
(Maître d’enseignement et de recherche,    ou cauchemar ?
Université de Genève)

15h40-16h00     Pause Café

16h00-16h40     Kermisch Céline           Enhancement et perception des risques
(Aspirant FNRS, Université libre de Bruxelles)
16h40-17h30     Pascal Nouvel           Un aiguillon philosophique à la conquête
(Professeur, Université Montpellier III)    des records : les amphétamines
17h30-18h20     Jean-Yves Goffi           Soigner, augmenter : une frontière floue ?
(Professeur, Université Pierre Mendès)

Samedi 10 mai

Session III : Enhancement and sport. Chair : Pierre Daled.

10h-10h50     Alexandre Mauron         Homo faber sui: quelques questions
(Professeur à l’Université de Genève)        d’éthique démiurgique
10h50-11h40     Patrick Laure           Ethique des conduites dopantes
(Université Paris XI-Orsay)
11h40-12h30     Quéval Isabelle           Le corps rationnel du sport de haut
(Maître de Conférence,        niveau: ambivalences du dépassement de   Université René Descartes-Paris V)  soi

12h30-14h00     Lunch

14h00-14h50       Claudio Tamburrini         What´s wrong with genetic inequality?
(Chercheur, Université de Göteborg)
14h50-15h40     Andy Miah           Human enhancement in performative
(Reader, University of the West of Scotland)              cultures


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