Gregory Stock

Comments and Information Redesigning Humans: Our Inevitable Genetic Future

Advances in medicine and technology are poised to transform human life in coming generations. Advanced reproductive technologies like human germline engineering and cloning, as well as end-of-life issues from extending lifespan to assisted suicide will challenge our ideas about the meaning and trajectory of human life.  The goal of MTS is to explore the medical, social, and personal implications of critical new technologies and to catalyze broad and intelligent public debate about them and their public policy implications.

Gregory Stock, Ph.D.
Director, UCLA Program on Medicine, Technology and Society

Biographical  Information

MTS Program Support Information

University of Texas Essay Contest Finalists Read essays submitted by 10th graders on "What the Genome Revolution Could Mean for Me and the Rio Grande Valley".

Welcome

The UCLA Program on Medicine, Technology and Society was organized in 1997 by Gregory Stock.  The first major event initiated by the program was Engineering the Human Germline Symposium held March 20, 1998 under the auspices of the UCLA Center for the Study of Evolution and the Origin of Life.  Since that time the program has produced web based multimedia projects as well as collaborated with other organizations to produce public symposium to further understanding of the future and ethics of genetic technologies.

Projects

Human Germline Engineering:
Best Hope or Worst Fear?
A multimedia exploration of the larger implications of manipulating the genes we pass to our children.  Text, video, and audio clips from original interviews on key scientific, social, and ethical aspects of the issue. Over 50 contributors and 200 video and audio clips.

The Storefront Genome - View lectures on Video from this public symposium at UCLA, organized by Gregory Stock in association with the UCLA Center for Society, the Individual and Genetics.

Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence: Reversing, not merely retarding, the degenerative effects of aging - Children’s Hospital of Oakland Research Institute, Oakland, CA Co-organizers: Aubrey de Grey, Bruce Ames, Gregory Stock.  
FULL TRANSCRIPT AVAILABLE.  

Enhancing the Human: Genomics, Science, Fiction and Ethics Collide.  View video from this Symposium jointly organized with the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles. 

Critical Future Milestones for Aging Research. The 1999 UCLA Roundtable that explored this topic.

Engineering the Human Germline. The 1998 UCLA Symposium. Summary Report, scientific information and press articles.

Order: Engineering the Human Germline --   An Exploration of the Science and Ethics of Altering the Genes we pass to our children.  (Oxford University Press, 2000). Read review from The New England Journal of Medicine

 

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