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Symposium on Genetics and Disability

March, 10-12, 2004

Seminar Room of the Centre for the Study of Human Settlement and Historical Change

*Siobhan McKenna Theatre, Arts Millenium Building

Wednesday, March 10
14:30-16:30	Steven Wilkinson	Child Welfare Arguments, Disability and Embryo Selection
*17:30-19:00	John Harris	Is There an Obligation to Eradicate Disability?
Thursday, March 11
9:00-10:15	Tom Shakespeare	Answers and Choices: Providing Information About Disability in Pregnancy
10:15-11:30	Janet Radcliffe Richards	Equal Worth
*12:30-14:00	Jonathan Wolff	Disability Among Equals
14:30-16:30	John Harris	Research on Those With Disability
*18:00-19:30	Janet Radcliffe Richards	The Social Construction Theory
Friday, March 12
9:30-11:30	Julian Savulescu	Why We Should Select the Best Children
*12:30-14:00	Tom Shakespeare	Do "Disabled People" Exist? Reflections on the Disability Category
14:30-16:30	Jonathan Wolff	Disability and Priority
*18:00-19:30	Julian Savulescu	The Argument in Favour of Selecting Disabled Children

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