Paul Wolpe can also address the following topics: - Designer Health Care: Changing Demand, Creative Services - Building Better Brains: How Neuroscience is Altering Human Functioning - Is My Mind Mine? Neuroscience, Privacy, and the Self - Cloning, Stem Cells, and the Meaning of “Life” - Designing Our Descendants: Reproductive Eugenics in the 21st Century - Borrowing Our Bodies: The Vexing Ethics of Human Medical Research - The Munchkin Way of Death - Bioethics in Space: NASA and the Thorny Problems of Ethics in Extreme Environments - The Rise of Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Why Now, and What Does it Mean? - Is Everything a Placebo Effect? Science, Medicine and Ways of Knowing - Ethical Leadership in Health Care - Pharmacogenomics - Ethics of Legacy Giving and Wills - Managed Care and Health Reform - Religious Perspectives on Biotechnology - Ethics, the Media, and Resistance to Biotechnology
The convergence of a variety of technologies – synthetic biology, genetic engineering, nanotechnology, neurotechnology, and informational and computational technology – is already changing the way we diagnose and cure disease, reproduce, and enhance ourselves. As the biotechnology industries are developing astonishing new products, they their potential to infringe on people’s privacy and bodily integrity, and to change “human nature,” is raising troubling questions. In this talk, we look at the cutting-edge technologies that are changing our lives, the social, ethical, and legal challenges they will bring.
The 78 million Boomers are now between 45 and 60 years old, and they aren’t getting younger. The history of the United States over the last half century has been, to a large extent, driven by the needs of the Boomers: Rock-and-roll took over when they were teenagers; politics changed when they protested the war and began to vote; business changed when they began to move up the management chain the 80s; and daycare, flex time, and baby products transformed when they began to have children. Now the Boomers are getting older, and biotechnology is responding, creating pharmaceuticals to enhance memory and sexual function, developing reproductive techniques that allow women to bear children into their sixties, and exploring ways to “cure” aging. In this talk, we explore the social and ethical implications of ways aging Boomers will drive biotechnological development in the coming decades.
A recent poll of top executives by the American Management Association asked, “What characteristics and skills are needed to be an effective leader today?” The number one answer was “Ethical Behavior.” Leadership is not only about inspiring, motivating, and taking responsibility for decisions. It is also about being a model of correct behavior in an organization. Ethical Leadership is a way of making decisions with integrity that reverberates throughout an organization. The basic principles are Ethical Leadership are discussed.
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