The future of human reproductive technology | Charis Thompson | Nobel Conference
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Channel: Gustavus Adolphus College · 2017 · Education
Charis Thompson, PhD presenting "The End of the World As We Know it? Human Technology Futures in a Time of Automation, Augmentation, and Deselection" at the 53rd annual Nobel Conference at Gustavus Adolphus College in 2017. Dr. Thompson addresses the history and future of reproductive technologies and their impact on society. Thompson is the Chancellor's Professor and chair of Gender & Women's Studies, and director of the Chau Hoi Shuen Program in Gender & Science at the University of California, Berkeley. A bioethicist, her current work on stem cell research emerged from earlier research on reproductive technologies, which was the subject of her book Making Parents: The Ontological Choreography of Reproductive Technologies. She is the also the author of Good Science: The Ethical Choreography of Stem Cell Research. #reproduction #nobelconference #scienceandethics #citizenscience #science The Nobel Conference: Science and Ethics, in Dialogue Since 1965, the Nobel Conference has been bringing leading researchers and thinkers to Gustavus Adolphus College in Saint Peter, Minnesota, to explore revolutionary, transformative and pressing scientific issues and the ethical questions that arise alongside them. As the only event in the United States authorized by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden to use this name, it is our privilege to host a space in which we can talk about big scientific questions, and the big ethical issues to which they inevitably give rise. The world needs more people who think critically about the crucial issues of our time, and who ask questions in ways that open up the conversation. Find us at https://gustavus.edu/nobelconference Follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/NobelConference Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/NobelConference
