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A MESSAGE FROM THE FOUNDING MEMBERS:
The website launch of the Alliance for Humane Biotechnology to help raise awareness about the social implications of genetic technologies has been a success! We have a thriving website and growing E-network. The eagerness with which people are seeking information from AHB puts to rest the presumption that biotechnological development is too complex to stimulate civic participation. Please contact us with your ideas on how to further AHB’s grassroots appeal.
Thank you!
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We are an alliance of scholars, students, and activists working for a biotechnology that places the health and welfare of people and the natural environment above financial interests. We network, speak, and publish on the social implications of biotechnological developments, especially those concerning human genetic manipulation. Areas of interest include reproductive and genetic technologies, human egg harvesting, cloning research, disability rights, biotech patenting, human-animal hybrid research, and synthetic biology.
We emphasize the common social, political, and economic conditions that give rise to human genetic engineering and the engineering of other genetically modified organisms, recognizing that human commodification and commodification of the natural environment are products of the same social processes.
We invite students, and all visitors, to check out "AHB 101" on the menu for a thumbnail sketch and recommended reading about the cultural politics of biotechnological development. Throughout the site look for the helpful AHB NOTE in red. Be sure to visit GET ACTIVE! for suggestions on how you can help work for a humane biotechnology.
Welcome!
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Founding Members :
Diane Beeson, Ph.D.
Joan Higgs
Emilia Ianeva, J.D., Ph.D.
Nicole Marchand
Frances Santiago
Ashley Silverthorn
M. L. Tina Stevens, Ph.D.
James E. Stevens, J.D.
Director, Continuing Education:
Stephanie Smith:
scs@humanebiotech.com
| Advisory Board:
Elaine Draper, J.D., Ph.D.
Rosann Greenspan, Ph.D.
Patricia Jennings, Ph.D.
Rabbi Michael Lerner
Abby Lippman, Ph.D.
Paul K. Longmore, Ph.D.
Jeff Lustig, Ph.D.
Margaret F. Lynch, Ph.D.
Stuart A. Newman, Ph.D.
Catherine Powell
Marsha Saxton, Ph.D.
Stephen Shmanske, Ph.D.
Casey Walker
Peter J. Whitehouse, M.D., Ph.D.
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A must see: ETC's Jim Thomas offers an incisive, eloquent social analysis of "synthetic biology" (in just 10 minutes, 18 seconds -- you have to see it to believe it!)
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AHB NOTE:
"ART" is an acronym for "assisted reproductive technology."
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AHB NOTE:
See also Newman's, "My attempt to patent a human-animal chimera," where he relates that Philip Leder, Chair of the Genetics Department, Harvard Medical School stated in 1998 that, “[t]he creation of chimeras is an outlandish undertaking. No one is trying to do it at present, certainly not involving human beings.” Such a comment contrasts starkly with Great Britain's recent green-light for creating human-animal embryos and offers a dramatic example, once again, of biotech's slippery ethical slope.
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AHB NOTE: After reading this article Get Active! Visit the Egg Donors Project and call for a moratorium on egg harvesting for cloning research.
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