Description

This is also the fourth meeting of the annual theme "Are the devices taking over?"

In recent years, the development of predictive and preventive health techniques and is taking off. After health care in the 20th century was primarily complaint-oriented, the message now is "prevention is better than cure": even well before conception, we should care about the health of the future child. Besides a host of lifestyle advice, genetic techniques, imaging techniques and monitoring techniques increasingly play a major role in this. The lecture will discuss what this trend means for questions about 'the good life': is it not an encroachment on our freedom and a threat to an open future? And how will (bio-medical) engineers have to relate to these questions?

ATTENDANCE
The hall is open from 18:30 for free coffee or tea and a social chat.
Given the interest in the topic, potential interested parties other than from the Philosophy & Engineering Department are also invited. However, the room capacity is limited to 30 seats. Due to this limited room capacity, you are requested to pass on declarations of participation until Tuesday 9 June at the latest.

ROUTE DESCRIPTION
From Utrecht CS station hall, walk the entire passage through Hoog Catharijne towards the city centre. When you arrive at the square, the Vredenburg 19 meeting centre is on your left, above C & A. When you get down, walk diagonally left along the walls of the building site, the square and the street (Vredenburg) have to be crossed. On the ground floor there is only an entrance hall with lifts and a notice board with the hall number, to the left of the C & A windows, next to the shoe shop Breugel.
Parking is available at NH hotels, among other places.

Speaker(s)

Klasien Horstman (1959) studied philosophical and historical sociology. In 2001 she was appointed Socrates Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Bioengineering at Eindhoven University of Technology and since 1 May 2009 she has been Professor of Philosophy of Public Health at Maastricht University. She conducts philosophical empirical research on how new (preventive) health technologies change our individual lives and society, and how we can ensure that these processes contribute to 'good living'. Her focus is on both 'hard' and ' soft' techniques, on DNA techniques as well as health education. Publications include Public bodies, private lives. The historical construction of life insurance, health risks and citizenship in the Netherlands 1880-1930 (2002), Factor XX. Women, eggs and genes (2004), Wrestling with healthy living. Ethics of cardiovascular disease prevention (2005), Genetics from laboratory to society. Social learning as an alternative to regulation (2008).

Location

Meeting centre, Vredenburg 19

Utrecht

Organiser

Philosophy & Technology

Name and contact details for information

Further information via the e-mail address below.

hbmuijttenhout@hotmail.com