Program
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Third Menzies Scholars Symposium
  DAY ONE: THURSDAY, 12 OCTOBER 2000
BACKGROUND   
10.00
OFFICIAL OPENING AND WELCOME The Hon Sir Daryl Dawson
Chairman, The Menzies Foundation
SESSION 1
THE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT - WHAT IS IT AND WHY DOES IT RAISE ISSUES? Chair: Professor Bob Williamson
Director, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
10.30 
The Human Genome Project - Intersection of Medicine, Science, Ethics, Philosophy and Politics Professor Grant Sutherland
Dept of Cytogenetics & Molecular Genetics
Women's & Children's Hospital, Adelaide
11.15
Coffee break  
11.30
Should the State Intervene in Ethical Decisions in Genetics? Professor Dan Wikler
World Health Organisation, Geneva
12.15
Discussion
12.45
Lunch
SESSION 2
THE PHILOSOPHY OF GENETIC DETERMINISM Chair: Assoc Prof Agnes Bankier
President
Human Genetics Society of Australasia
2.00 
A Man is the Sum of his DNA Sequences Professor Nick Martin
The Gene CRC, Brisbane
2.45
Are we Really  the Sum of our Genes? Assoc Professor Arthur Kuflik
Department of Philosophy
The University of Vermont, USA
3.30
Discussion
4.00
 Tea break
4.30 
Genetic Discrimination and the Limits of the Law Professor Margaret Otlowski
Faculty of Law, University of Tasmania
5.15
Refreshments for speakers and registrants

 
DAY 2: FRIDAY, 13 OCTOBER 2000
SESSION 3
 THE LAW, PUBLIC POLICY AND HUMAN GENETICS Chair: Professor Tom Campbell
ANU & Australian Society for Health, Law and Ethics, Canberra
9.15 The Need for Legal Control over Misuse of Personal  Data Senator Natasha Stott-Despoja
Deputy Leader, Australian Democrats
10.00
 Coffee break
10.30
 The Implications of Human Genetics for Public Policy Professor Tony Coady
The Centre for Applied Philosophy & Public Health, University of Melbourne
11.15
 The Devil=s Offer and the Value of Genetic Information Dr David McCarthy
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne
12.00
 Genetic Defects in Human Germ Cells:  What should we do? Professor Roger Short
Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne
12.45
 Lunch
SESSION 4
 CLONING AND THE FUTURE OF GENETICS Chair: Professor Louis Waller
Chairman, Infertility Treatment Authority, Victoria
1.45
 Why Clone? Professor Alan Trounson
Institute of Reproduction and Development, Monash University
2.30
 Human Cloning - A Serious Issue of Concern to All Mr Nicholas Tonti-Filippini
Ethicist, Melbourne
3.15
 Human Cloning - Why We Must Facilitate Therapeutic Cloning and Embryonic Stem Cell Research Professor Julian Savulescu
(former Menzies Scholar), Ethics Unit
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute & University of Melbourne
4.00
 Tea break
4.15
 Discussion
4.45
 The Human Genome and Our World Responsibilities Professor Agnes Bankier
Human Genetics Society of Australasia , and
Professor Bob Williamson
Director, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne
5.30
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