Conference participants submitted over 125 background documents for the conference. They represent a rich diversity of perspectives and source materials.
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| | TITLE | AUTHOR | SUBMITTED BY | |
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| | Human Genome: Social and Ethical implications | Hamid Ahmed | Hamid Ahmed |
| | DPI-Europe Statement on Genetics | DPI Europe | Bill Albert |
| | Response to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority on the Consultation on Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis | Human Genetics Commission UK | Bill Albert |
| | HUMAN FERTILISATION AND EMBRYOLOGY AUTHORITY/HUMAN GENETICS COMMISSION JOINT WORKING PARTY ON PREIMPLANTATION GENETIC DIAGNOSIS SUMMARY OF DISCUSSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS | HGC/HFEA UK | Bill Albert |
| | The New Genetics and Disabled People | British Council of Disabled People BCODP | Bill Albert |
| | Biomedicine and international human rights law: in search of a global consensus | Roberto Andorno | Roberto Andorno |
| | MILITARIZATION OF KNOWLEDGE | Adina Aviram | Adina Aviram |
| | Controlling the "Other": Militarization and Bioengineering | Adina Aviram | Adina Aviram |
| | GE Free NZ Inc. Submission on the Supplementary Order Paper on the Human Assisted Reproductive Technology Bill (part 1) | GE Free New Zealand | Tremane Barr |
| | GE Free NZ Inc. Submission on the Supplementary Order Paper on the Human Assisted Reproductive Technology Bill (part 2, appendices) | GE Free New Zealand | Tremane Barr |
| | GE Free NZ Inc. Submission on the Supplementary Order Paper on the Human Assisted Reproductive Technology Bill (part 3, appendix 8) | GE Free New Zealand | Tremane Barr |
| | Beware the Brave New World of the NBIC Hive Mind | Tremane Barr | Tremane Barr |
| | Access to the Resources of Biodiversity and Indigenous Peoples | Lorenzo Muelas Hurtado | Beth Burrows |
| | Conquest by Patents | Beth Burrows | Beth Burrows |
| | Acceso a los recursos de la biodiversidad y pueblos indigenas | Lorenzo Muelas Hurtado | Beth Burrows |
| | Old and New Eugenics: Getting Rid of Other People | Beth Burrows | Beth Burrows |
| | Genomics, Health, and Society | Chee-Khoon Chan | Chee-Khoon Chan |
| | Commodification and Market-driven Biomedical Research | Chee-Khoon Chan | Chee-Khoon Chan |
| | Aspects relating to the formation of an International Network on Gender, New Genetic and Reproductive Technologies, and Responsible Ethics | Alejandra Rotania | Marcy Darnovsky |
| | Aspectos relativos a la formación de una Red Internacional de Género , Nuevas Tecnologías Reproductivas y Genéticas y Responsabilidad Ética | Alejandra Rotania | Marcy Darnovsky |
| | Memo: "The potential for an international network on women and reproductive / genetic" | multiple authors | Marcy Darnovsky |
| | Sex Selection Moves to Consumer Culture: Ads for “Family Balancing” in the New York Times | Marcy Darnovsky | Marcy Darnovsky |
| | Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis and Selection: From Disease Prevention to Customized Conception | Tania Simoncelli | Marcy Darnovsky |
| | The Genome as Commons | Tom Athanasiou and Marcy Darnovsky | Marcy Darnovsky |
| | World Genomics and World Health Organisation, June 2001: People's Health Assembly's position | Gilles de Wildt | Gilles de Wildt |
| | Preliminary Report Bioethics in South Africa | Stefan Cramer | Stephan Ertner |
| | The human – a battelfield | Erika Feyerabend | Stephan Ertner |
| | Research subjects' right to know must be respected (China Daily 10/22/2003) | Lei Xiong | Stephan Ertner |
| | Mit Kant aus der Sackgasse? - Report on the conference in Sueddeutsche Zeitung (in German) | Alexander Kissler | Stephan Ertner |
| | Summary Report: HUMAN GENETICS: CIVIL SOCIETY INVOLVEMENT WORKSHOP | Heinrich Boell Foundation South Africa | Stephan Ertner |
| | The human – a battlefield | Erika Feyerabend | Erika Feyerabend |
| | Disabled Womem: An excluded agenda of Indian Feminism | anita ghai | Anita Ghai |
| | The role of women in biomedical research | Sigrid Graumann | Sigrid Graumann |
| | Sloterdijk-debate | Sigrid Graumann | Sigrid Graumann |
| | Eugenics | Sigrid Graumann | Sigrid Graumann |
| | PGD | Sigrid Graumann | Sigrid Graumann |
| | Bioethics | Sigrid Graumann | Sigrid Graumann |
| | human dignity | Sigrid Graumann | Sigrid Graumann |
| | Biopolitics | Sigrid Graumann | Sigrid Graumann |
| | Bioethics and Disability: an human right issue | Giampiero Griffo | Giampiero Griffo |
| | National Policies on Human Genetic Modification: A Preliminary Survey | Center for Genetics and Society | Richard Hayes |
| | The New Human Genetic Technologies: A Threshold Challenge for Humanity | Richard Hayes | Richard Hayes |
| | Liberal, Progressive and Pro-Choice Voices Against the New Eugenics | Center for Genetics and Society | Richard Hayes |
| | Standing at the Crossroads of Genetic Testing: New Eugenics, Disability Consciousness, and Women’s Work | Rayna Rapp and Faye Ginsburg | Julie Hyman |
| | Genetics and Society in Eastern Europe | Emilia Ianeva | Emilia Ianeva |
| | Human Cloning: A Choice Or An Echo? | George Annas | Rosario Isasi |
| | Clonacion Humana: Una lucha contra el Tiempo | Rosario Isasi | Rosario Isasi |
| | Protecting the Endangered Human: Toward an International Treaty Prohibiting Cloning and Inheritable Alterations | Rosario Isasi | Rosario Isasi |
| | The Man On The Moon, Immortality, And Other Millennial Myths: The Prospects And Perils Of Human Genetic Engineering | George Annas | Rosario Isasi |
| | La perspectiva de los derechos humanos | Rosario Isasi | Rosario Isasi |
| | Commentary: Why It Is Wrong To Select Embryos To Be Tissue Donors | David King | David King |
| | DNA, Capitalism and Progress | David King | David King |
| | Cloning? Yuk! | David King | David King |
| | Patents and genes - some ethical considerations | Florianne Koechlin | Florianne Koechlin |
| | Technicalisation of human procreation and social living conditions | Regine Kollek | Regine Kollek |
| | Genetically modified humans: for what and for whom? | Mae-Wan Ho & Joe Cummins | Lim Li Ching |
| | Why biotech patents are patently absurd - Scientific briefing on TRIPS and related issues | Mae-Wan Ho | Lim Li Ching |
| | The re-emergence of infectious diseases on the public health agenda | Richard Levins | Chee Yoke Ling |
| | Argentina's GM Woes | Mae-Wan Ho and Lilian Joensen | Chee Yoke Ling |
| | Attempt to Discredit Adult Stem Cells | Joe and Mae-Wan Ho Cummins | Chee Yoke Ling |
| | Environmental Effects of Genetically Engineered Vaccines? | Terje Traavik | Chee Yoke Ling |
| | The corporate construction of disease: the pharmaceutical industry and disease-mongering | Ray Moynihan, Iona Heath and David Henry | Chee Yoke Ling |
| | Sex Selection: A Gender-based Preference for a Pregnancy | Rupsa Mallik | Rupsa Mallik |
| | A Less Valued Life:Population Policy and Sex Selection in India | Rupsa Mallik | Rupsa Mallik |
| | Sex Selection: A Gender Based Preference for a Pregnancy | Rupsa Mallik | Rupsa Mallik |
| | The Far Right, Reproductive Rights, and U.S. International Assistance: The Untold Story Behind the Headlines | Jodi L. Jacobson | Rupsa Mallik |
| | India - Recent Developments Affecting Women's Reproductive Rights | Rupsa Mallik | Rupsa Mallik |
| | Resolution on Pre Natal Diagnosis and the Right to Be Different | EDF IF | Pierre Mertens |
| | Policy Statement if: The right to be different | IF | Pierre Mertens |
| | the right to be different, prenatal diagnosis and termination of pregnancy | Pierre Mertens | Pierre Mertens |
| | Human Dignity in the Context of Bioethics | Dietmar Mieth | Dietmar Mieth |
| | Genetics, Normalcy and Disability | Roxanne Mykitiuk | Roxanne Mykitiuk |
| | The Gender of Genetic Futures: The Canadian Biotechnology Strategy, Women and Health | Proceedings of a National Strategic Workshop | Roxanne Mykitiuk |
| | The New Genetics in the Post-Keynesian State | Roxanne Mykitiuk | Roxanne Mykitiuk |
| | The Construction of Disability and Risk in Genetic Counselling Discourse | The Roeher Institute | Roxanne Mykitiuk |
| | Exceeding the limits of human nature | Andreas Poltermann | Andreas Poltermann |
| | Biopiracy or Bioprivateering? | Richard Stallman | Andreas Poltermann |
| | Genes of a Nation: The Selling of Iceland´s Genes | Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir | Jesse Reynolds |
| | Human Biotechnology: Responding to Emerging Dangerous New Human Genetics | Jesse Reynolds | Jesse Reynolds |
| | New Contraceptive and Genetic Reproductive Technologies: Challenges, Limits and Perspectives of Thought and Action | Alejandra Rotania | Alejandra Rotania |
| | Nuevas Tecnologías Reproductivas Conceptivas y Genéticas: Retos, Límites y Perspectivas del Pensamiento y la Acción | Alejandra Rotania | Alejandra Rotania |
| | CHALLENGES OF NEW HUMAN GENETIC TECHNOLOGIES: The current situation of Africa | René M. SEGBENOU | René M. Segbenou |
| | Ethics or Economics? Public Health or Private Wealth? | Sarah Sexton | Sarah Sexton |
| | Deceptive Promises of Cures For Disease | Sarah Sexton | Sarah Sexton |
| | New Reproductive and Genetic Technologies: International versus National Campaign Issues | Sarah Sexton | Sarah Sexton |
| | New Reproductive and Genetic Technologies: International versus National Campaign Issues | Sarah Sexton | Sarah Sexton |
| | New Reproductive and Genetic Technologies: International versus National Campaign Issues | Sarah Sexton | Sarah Sexton |
| | Population-Based Large Scale Collections of DNA Samples and Databases of Genetic Information | Bioethics Advisory Committee Israel Academy of Sciences | Carmel Shalev |
| | The Use of Embryonic Stem Cells for Therapeutic Research | Bioethics Advisory Committee Israel Academy of Sciences | Carmel Shalev |
| | Reproductive Cloning: A Human Rights Framework | Carmel Shalev | Carmel Shalev |
| | Weighing and Balancing the Values of a Jewish Democracy | Carmel Shalev | Carmel Shalev |
| | Human Gene Therapy: A Cure for All Ills? | GeneWatch UK | Helen Wallace |
| | Genetic Testing in Insurance and Employment: A New Form of Discrimination | Helen Wallace | Helen Wallace |
| | Genetic Testing in the Work Place | Kristina Staley | Helen Wallace |
| | Human Bio-Collections: Who Benefits from Gene Banking? | GeneWatch UK | Helen Wallace |
| | Genetic Information and Biological Weapons | GeneWatch UK | Helen Wallace |
| | Privatising Knowledge Patenting Genes; The Race to Control Genetic Information | GeneWatch UK | Helen Wallace |
| | Genetics and 'Predictive Medicine': Selling Pills Ignoring Causes | Helen Wallace | Helen Wallace |
| | Giving Your Genes to Biobank UK: Questions to Ask | Kristina Staley | Helen Wallace |
| | A UK Biobank: Good for Public Health? | Helen Wallace | Helen Wallace |
| | Pharmacogenetics: Better, safer medicines? | Helen Wallace | Helen Wallace |
| | Patenting Genes: Stifling Research and Jeopardising Healthcare | Econexus and GeneWatch UK | Helen Wallace |
| | DPI Bioethics resolutions from the 6th World Assembly Oct. 2002, Sapporo, Japan | Disabled People International | Gregor Wolbring |
| | SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AND THE TRIPLE D (DISEASE, DISABILITY, DEFECT) | Gregor Wolbring | Gregor Wolbring |
| | The Silenced Target | Gregor Wolbring | Gregor Wolbring |
| | Ciencia, tecnología y la DED (discapacidad, enfermedad, defecto), | Gregor Wolbring | Gregor Wolbring |
| | Expert opinion for the Study Commission on the Law and Ethics of Modern Medicine of the German Bundestag Title Consequences of the application of genetic diagnostics for disabled people (German) | Gregor Wolbring | Gregor Wolbring |
| | Science and the Disadvantaged | Gregor Wolbring | Gregor Wolbring |
| | Disabled people response to Report of the IBC on Pre-implantation Diagnostic and Germ-line Intervention | Disabled People International | Gregor Wolbring |
| | Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance: Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Information Technology and Cognitive Science | workshop held by the National Science Foundation and the Dept. of Commerce (USA) | Gregor Wolbring |
| | A Constitution for the Disabled or a Disabled Constitution? | Jonathan Penney | Gregor Wolbring |
| | The Big Down: Atomtech - Technologies Converging at the Nano-scale | ETC-group formerly RAFI | Gregor Wolbring |
| | Report of the IBC on Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis and Germ-Line Intervention SHS-EST/02/CIB-9/2 (Rev. 3) | UNESCO's International Bioethics Committee (see also DPI's response to this document) | Gregor Wolbring |
| | THE MADRID DECLARATION “NON DISCRIMINATION PLUS POSITIVE ACTION RESULTS IN SOCIAL INCLUSION | European Congress on Disability | Gregor Wolbring |
| | What Rights Should the Treaty Contain? | Quinn G., Jiménez R., Cisterna M., and Rioux M. | Gregor Wolbring |
| | The Right to Live and be Different | Disabled People International Europe | Gregor Wolbring |
| | NBIC,NGO's society and three types of disabled people | official backgroundpaper reflecting many thoughts I will mention at the Strategy and Action Panel | Gregor Wolbring |
| | The Debate on Medical Ethics and Research in Germany 50 Years after Nuremberg | Michael Wunder | Michael Wunder |
| | Im Zweifel für das Leben? Zur aktuellen Debatte um die Sterbehilfe | Michael Wunder | Michael Wunder |
| | Die „Differenz als Chance“ braucht das „Recht auf den Zufall“ | Michael Wunder | Michael Wunder |
| | Investigation Covers Research Fraud | Lei Xiong | Lei Xiong |
| | Institutional Indecency | Lei Xiong | Lei Xiong |
| | A Retrospective of "Harvard Case" | Lei Xiong | Lei Xiong |
| | Anhui Farmers Still Questioning Harvard Projects | Lei Xiong | Lei Xiong |