US-India Workshop: Genetic Determinism, Sikkim, India, December 2003

美印研讨会：基因决定论，印度锡金，2003 年 12 月

• 批准号: 0330631
• 负责人: Stuart Newman
• 金额: $ 1.55万
• 依托单位: New York Medical College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-11-15 至 2004-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0330631&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: US; India; Workshop; Genetic; Determinism

Description: This award supports travel for a small US delegation to participate in the US-India workshop on Genetic Determinism that will be held in Sikkim, India during December 2003. Drs. Stuart Newman, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY and Vadyanand Nanjundiah, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore are the organizers of the meeting, which will critically examine the gene-based philosophy that dominates modern biology and medicine. They will convene a five-day international meeting to discuss the theoretical, applied, ethical and philosophical issues surrounding genetic determinism. Ethical and philosophical considerations on genetic engineering have typically been examined in isolation from purely scientific and technical ones, without any attempt to include historical perspectives from either the history of medicine or the history of science. Scope: Discussion of relevant issues will be important for biologists working in the laboratory, those concerned with food production and agriculture, medical and health care professionals, philosophers, and the general public. India with its great philosophical and ethical tradition, and advanced scientific culture appears to be on the verge of making a major commitment to large-scale genetic manipulation of crop plants. It is important that the full range of issues raised by genetic modification be discussed, debated and broadly disseminated as issues of vital public interest and public understanding of science.

描述：该奖项支持一个小型美国代表团参加2003年12月在印度锡金举行的美印基因决定论研讨会的旅费。纽约医学院的Stuart Newman博士和班加罗尔印度科学研究所的Vadyan和Nanjudiah博士是这次会议的组织者，会议将批判性地研究主导现代生物学和医学的基于基因的哲学。他们将召开为期五天的国际会议，讨论围绕遗传决定论的理论、应用、伦理和哲学问题。关于基因工程的伦理和哲学考量通常与纯粹的科学和技术考量分开进行，没有试图从医学史或科学史的角度考虑历史问题。范围：相关问题的讨论对于在实验室工作的生物学家、与食品生产和农业有关的人、医疗保健专业人员、哲学家和普通公众都很重要。印度有着伟大的哲学和伦理传统，以及先进的科学文化，似乎即将对大规模操纵农作物的基因做出重大承诺。重要的是，应讨论、辩论和广泛传播基因改造所引起的各种问题，这些问题关系到公众的切身利益和公众对科学的理解。