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| Aging and the Changing Nature of the Human Thomas R. Cole, Director, McGovern Center for Health, Humanities, and the Human Spirit (UT), Professor, Humanities, Religious Studies Dept. (Rice) | |
| date: | 4:00PM to 5:00PM US Central (GMT −0600) Tuesday, January 16, 2007 |
| length: | 1 hour, 0 minutes |
| location: | McMurtry Auditorium |
| sponsor: | SCIENTIA |
| summary: | This lecture will first discuss the recent debate over bioengineering and posthumanism. Then it will probe the place of aging in contemporary American culture—with emphasis on efforts to banish aging from human experience. Finally, it will speculate about issues of dementia, memory loss, and personhood. |
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