The Scottish Healthcare Genetics
Public Engagement Network
Events in August 2010
Saturday August 28th 2010, 19.00
Edinburgh International Book Festival
Harder, better, faster, stronger?
In his guise as a science fiction writer, Iain M Banks has created a utopian interstellar civilisation known as the Culture. This imaginary community populated by ‘transhumans’ has real-life parallels in the work of Kevin Warwick, Professor of Cybernetics at Reading University. The subject of Warwick’s research is his own body, and he has transformed himself into the world’s first Cyborg. In this event Warwick and Banks are joined by Steve Yearley, Director of the ESRC Genomics Policy and Research Forum, to contemplate the future of human beings.
Organised by: Edinburgh International Book Festival
Events in
September 2010
Friday September 3rd
to Monday September 6th,
DISC1 2010 Conference
Saturday September 4th,
Cystic Fibrosis - Better Understanding, Better Lives
Sunday September 5th,
Ancient Viral Voyagers
Wednesday September 15th,
Sharing Human Tissue
Friday September 17th,
Health technology assessment for genomic medicine: Challenges and prospects,