Ontogeny and Human Life conference

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Ateneo Pontificio Regina Apostolorum
Master in Scienza e Fede
STOQ’07 – THE STOQ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Ontogeny and Human Life
Pontifical Athenaeum ´Regina Apostolorum´
In collaboration with the
Pontifical Academy for Life
Rome, Italy
November 15-17, 2007

PRESENTATION

The STOQ’07 Conference will be focused on the topic of the ontogeny and development of human life.

It is well known that in the last decades this topic, and in particular the question of the identity and status of the human embryo, has stirred hot and endless bioethical debates, with notable repercussions on the social and political life of many countries.

Obviously, such an item must be tackled from various and variously intermingling viewpoints, from biology to law, or from medicine to anthropology, dealing with questions like: is human ontogenesis a continuous process, or is it marked by biological and ontological discontinuities? If so, when and where to place such discontinuities, and what ethical and juridical conclusions to draw? Is there a clear cut between embryos and pseudo-embryos, or there is a continuum between perfect normality and total abnormality? How to deal with situations challenging the concepts of individual and organism, as with conjoined twins or developmental chimaeras?
In a more general framework, the concept of ontogenesis also reminds us of a bio-philosophical theme that seems today largely underestimated, that is biological genesis, from epigenesis to the origin of life, or from genetics to phylogeny.

Thus, the next STOQ Conference will provide a unique opportunity to rigorously deal with, and serenely discuss, the numerous aspects of human development and ontogenesis, in the context of a high-level academic board and in the beautiful setting of the town of Rome.
The Conference will be accordingly divided in four Sections: a) Biological Aspectsb) Biomedical Aspectsc) Philosophical and Theological Aspectsd) Bioethical and Juridical Aspects
Concluding each day of the Conference, Panel Sessions will give all the participants an opportunity to intervene in open debate on these topics.

PROGRAM (pdf)

Per informazioni:Guido Traversatel 06 66527872 - convegnontogenesi@libero.it
Luigi Sammarco tel 06 66527854 - mastersf@upra.org
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