Mar 26, 2018–Mar 26, 2018 from 2:00pm–3:00pm
Daniel Kevles will discuss historical and public policy issues related to modern genetics, especially the potential for applications of genome editing to emerging pressures toward a new eugenics movement in the U.S. and elsewhere. Prof. Kevles is a historian and ex-faculty chair at Cal Tech, emeritus professor of history and Law at Yale, and since his retirement, he is visiting professor at Columbia and NYU. He is best known for his 1985 book In the Name of Eugenics as well as for the 1998 The Baltimore Case.
Mar 26, 2018–Mar 26, 2018
from 2:00pm–3:00pm
Marilyn Farquhar Conference Room, Center for Neural Circuits and Behavior (CNCB)
Registration is not required for this event.
Free
Kate O'Shaughnessy • koshaughnessy@ucsd.edu • 858-822-6717
Faculty, Staff, Students, The General Public
IPE, TIGS, CGGT, and the Division of Social Sciences