Human Values Meetup - online
Details
Our next Meetup, on the fourth Sunday of the month as usual, will be online.
The topic will be: "Medicine, Profit, and Bureaucracy - the Case of
Dialysis" The kidney was the first human organ to be successfully replaced with a machine. But huge dialysis corporations, ambitious entrepreneurs, and Beltway lobbyists soon turned this medical breakthrough into a complex situation involving for-profit medicine, inequality, and government bureaucracy. The complications may give us lessons for handling other situations. Bill Creasy will introduce the topic, followed by open discussion.
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You can participate either by webcam or telephone. The link will be sent that morning to anyone who has RSVPd. We'll also check for RSVPs by 11:30 am that day.
We recommend that you RSVP from the Events page:
to RSVP:
https://www.meetup.com/The-Human-Values-Network-HVN/events/
If you don't see the link in your inbox by 11:30 that day, send a note directly to the organizer:
https://www.meetup.com/The-Human-Values-Network-HVN/members/?op=leaders
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We welcome a diversity of views, for open-minded discussion, where we can learn from each other.
We meet the 4th Sunday of each month, 12:30-2:00, and are currently meeting online. At about 12:45, the speaker that day introduces the topic (usually a 20 minute introduction), followed by open discussion.
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We were meeting in a restaurant before the covid situation. When we met there, our format was: lunch and socializing, the first hour; then a presentation, followed by open discussions. The topics are on various subjects related to human values, such as: aspects of society; the arts; social science; current events; nature and evolution; history; science and technology; ethics; philosophy, etc.