Bioenhancement Technologies and the Vulnerable body

The participants in this roundtable all agree that minority perspectives yield new insights into biomedical enhancements, particularly when persons are vulnerable to health disparities, including persons with disabilities, and persons of color. The presenters for this round table come from different denominational backgrounds and represent different minority perspectives and they bring those perspectives to bear on questions of bioenhancement. Each presenter will briefly (5-7 minutes) highlight how they have come to evaluate particular bioenhanmcent technologies using insights from their religious traditions and minority communities. Presenters will describe how their theological methods and ontological suppositions reflect on the distinctiveness of human creatureliness in relation to technology and what difference bioenhancement might make for our conceptions of vulnerability.