Day 2
Monday, March 6, 2000

MORNING SESSION: BIOTECHNOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
Where is biotechnology taking us on various timescales-
10 years, 1,000 years, 10,000 years, 1,000,000 years-
in trying to "remedy" aging and "conquer" death?

Biotechnological Overview Speaker
Mark B. Adams, Ph.D., -History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
Open Discussion view presentation

Biotechological Discussants
Michael D. West, Ph.D.-Advanced Cell Technology, Inc.
Mark E. Westhusin, Ph.D.-Texas A&M University view presentation 56k ISDN
Gregory Stock, Ph.D.-University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine view presentation
Mark B. Adams, Ph.D.-University of Pennsylvania view presentation
Open Discussion view presentation

AFTERNOON SESSION:
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
Where should-or should not-biotechnology be taking us on various timescales, from 10 to 1,000,000 years? How ought we to live life and experience death? view presentation

PANEL DISCUSSION
Moderator Arthur L. Caplan, Ph.D.-Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania Health System view presentation

Panelists
Rev. Calvin O. Butts, III, D.Min.-Abyssinian Baptist Church (New York City)
Audrey R. Chapman, Ph.D., M.Div.-American Association for the Advancement of Science
Charles L. Harper, Jr., D.Phil.-John Templeton Foundation
William B. Hurlbut, M.D.-Stanford University
Father Richard John Neuhaus-Institute on Religion and Public Life
Robert E. Pollack, Ph.D.-Columbia University
Stephen G. Post, Ph.D.-Center for Biomedical Ethics, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University
Rabbi Gerald I. Wolpe, Ph.D.-Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania Health System
Paul Root Wolpe, Ph.D.-Center for Bioethics and Departments of Psychiatry and of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania Health System