What: Honors Forum on Faith and Intellect; topic is bioethics
When: Noon to 1 p.m. today
Where: Hardin-Simmons University, in the multipurpose room of the Johnson Building.
Keynote speaker: Dr. Peter Dysert II, chief of pathology, Baylor University Medical Center
Topic: "Precision Medicine: A Technology-driven Revolution"
Registration fees: $20 for conference and all meals ($10 for HSU employees and students); $5 each for keynote address and meal; no charge for presentations only.
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Joy Lewis/Reporter-News Dr. James Denison, director of the Denison Forum on Truth and Culture, talks with guests before his keynote address, "Precision Medicine: Ethical Imperatives and Challenges" at Hardin-Simmons University on Thursday.
The day may come when some diseases are greatly diminished or even eliminated through genetic testing before people are even conceived that's the good news.
But what if that same testing can predict a child's future capabilities when conception occurs? Will that knowledge affect a couple's decision to have a child or even to marry?
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Ethics questions posed by 'precision medicine' are weighty, speaker tells HSU forum