11.10.2018"Der bessere Mensch und die Angst" - Article in the Zürcher Studierendenzeitung (ZS) about the 2015 Winter School on Human Enhancement

From March 4 to 6, the Center for Medical Humanities (CMH) and the IBME have organized a Winter School on the ethics of human enhancement.
Forty-five participants and a dozen of speakers from all around the world have spent three days discussing different issues on this current hot topic in bioethics. The article Der bessere Mensch und die Angst summarizes well this three intense days of learning, questioning, and discussing. Article ZS Online

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