| Phil Bereano |
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Phil Bereano, Professor Emeritus Courses Taught:TC 420 Intro to Technology as a Social & Political Phenomenon Education:B. Chem. Eng., Cornell University, 1962 Professional Interest:Technology assessment; technology and social values; women, ethnic minorities, and technology; public policies regarding data technologies, genetic engineering, alternative technologies; and the environmental and ethical aspects of technologies. Honors and Awards:Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science "for contributions to understanding the role of science and technology in society," 1982. Fulbright Award to support sabbatical at Urban Institute, University of Paris and the Engineering Research. Institute, University of Nantes, Fall 1989. UW Outstanding Public Service Award, 1994. Selected by Seattle Times as one of the 100 People of Influence, July 9, 1995. Member of the bar, New York State. Research Interest:Policies for Computer/Communications Information Systems, especially issues on privacy, discrimination, right-to-know (First Amendment), monitoring and surveillance; equitable access to technologies and to relevant decision making institutions. Citizen participation in Technology Assessment, sabbatical research, 1997-1998 (Danish National Technology Board; University of Amsterdam, Department of Science and Technology Dynamics; Conservtaoire National des Arts et Metiers (Paris)) "State Subsidies to the High Tech Industry." Biotechnology (genetic engineering, recombinant DNA), both in area of agriculture/environment/food and as it regards human biomedical applications. Also, research and evolution of public policies regarding regulation and citizen participation, civil liberties, environmental assessment, international regulation. Other Professional ActivitiesCouncil for Responsible Genetics, Board of Directors, 1984 - 2001. United Nations Convention on Biodiversity, participant in the drafting process for an International Biosafety Protocol, Madrid, 1995, Aarhus (Denmark), 1996; Montreal 1997-98; Cartagena, Columbia, 1999; Vienna, Sept. 1999; Montreal, Jan. 2001. Presentation on "Socioeconomic Impact Analysis and the Biosafety Protocol," plenary session, Oct. 13, 1997 Montreal; registered observer, 4th Conference of the Parties to the Convention, Bratislava, Slovakia, May, 1998, delegate to subsequent meetings of the Protocol parties. AAAS, member of steering committee, Section X ("Social Impacts of Science and Engineering"), 1995 - 1999. American Civil Liberties Union, national Board of Directors, 1994 - present (new technologies and civil liberties‚ e.g. privacy, discrimination, etc.); chair, Committee on Data Collection, Storage, Dissemination. Selected Lectures/Interviews"The Human Genome Project," BBC-TV, interview to be broadcast in Jan. 1999. "Biodiversity and Jewish Ethical Values," Sermon, Congregation Tikvah Chadashah, Seattle, Oct. 3, 1998. "The FBI DNA-ID Databank," the Diane Rehm Show (NPR syndication to 70 stations, call-in), Oct. 19, 1998. American Society for Information Science, "Information Technologies and Democratic Values," banquet speech, Sept. 19, 1997. Women in Telecommunications, "Technology: How Much is Too Much?," quarterly meeting, debate, April 29, 1998. "Human Cloning," Native America Calling, (syndicated radio call-in program), Jan. 26, 1998. International Association of Dental Researchers, "Social and Ethical Aspects of the Human Genome Project," Orlando, Florida, March 1997. American Association for the Advancement of Science 1997 annual meeting, "The Challenges to Civil Liberties Presented by Human Genetics Research," symposium organizer and moderator, Feb. 18, 1997. IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology, International Symposium on Technology and Society, "Technical Expertise and Public Decisions," June 21, 1996. US Congress, House of Representatives, Briefing on Privacy and Genetic Discrimination, "Principles of Medical Privacy," May 13, 1996. Publications:Rights and Liberties in the Biotech Age; Why We Need a Genetic Bill of Rights (book), Council for Responsible Genetics, 2 essays (Biodiversity, Genetic Privacy), Spring 2005. "Harmony or Havoc? The Biosafety Protocol, the Codex Alimentarius and the World Trade Organization," with Eliott Peacock, SciDev.Net website, Fall, 2004. "Goliath v. Schmeiser ," GeneWatch Volume 17 Number 4 July- August 2004 (with Martin Phillipson). "To Eat or Not to Eat? An Obscure UN Agency Tries to Provide an Answer," (with Eliott Peacock), Seedling, April 2004. "Trans-Atlantic Food Fight," GeneWatch, Volume 16, Number 3, May, 2003. "The Human Genome Project as a Social Enterprise," Encyclopedia of the human Genome, Nature Publishing Group, April 2003. "GMOs in a Post-Cancun World," GeneWatch, Volume 17 Number 1, January - February 2003. Review assistance, An Explanatory Guide to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, MacKenzie, et al, International Union for the Conservation of Nature (Environmental Law Centre) and Foundation for International Law and Development, January 2003; . "Engineered-food claims are hard to swallow," Op Ed, Seattle Times, November 19, 2002 (also posted electronically on CommonDreams). "Does Genetic Research Threaten Our Civil Liberties?", BioScience Productions, Inc., www.actionbioscience.org: posted Fall 2000. "You Are What You Eat", Peace Review, 12:4 (2000), pp. 525-531. "The Human Genome Project as a Social Enterprise," Encyclopedia of the Human Genome, MacMillian & Co., U.K. (April 2003). "Affirming Diversity: Moving From Tolerance to Acceptance and Beyond," Final Report of the President's Task Force on GBLT Issues, Feb. 2001 (Co-author; editor). "Life Liberty, and the Pursuit of Genetic Testing," (with Richard Sclove), OpEd, Washington Post, March 22, 1998. Guest Editor, Technology and Society magazine (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) commemorating the life and work of Ben Linder (his student) on the 10th anniversary of his assassination, Vol. 16, No. 2, Summer 1997. "Reflections of a Participant-Observer: The Technocratic/Democratic Contradiction in the Practice of Technology Assessment, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, March-April 1997, pp. 163, 175. "Technology and Democracy," essay in Plain Talk About the Human Genome Project (ed. By E. Smith & W. Sapp), Tuskegee University Press, 1997. "Mystique of the Phantom 'Gay Gene'," OpEd, Seattle Times, Feb. 25, 1996; reprinted in various versions in Professional Ethics Report (AAAS), Vol. 9, No. 2,Spring ‚ 96; Seattle Gay News, Dec. 20, 1996; Gay Community News, Vol. 22, No. 4 (Spring 97); Seattle P.I., Dec. 15, 1996; NOGLSTP Bulletin, Summer, 1997. "The Environmental and Ethical Considerations of Genetically Engineered Plants and Foods," Changing Nature‚ Course: The Ethical Challenge of Biotechnology, (Hong Kong University Press, 1996). "Patent Pending: The Race to Own DNA," OpEd, Seattle Times, Aug. 27, 1995. "Body and Soul: The Price of Bio-Technology," OpEd, Seattle Times, Aug. 20, 1995. "Science, Technology and Social Responsibility," Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1995. Lecture series pamphlet. "Impact of DNA-Based Identification Systems on Civil Liberties," DNA on Trial: Issues in the Use of DNA Identification in Courts (Billings, ed.) (Cold Spring Harbor Press, 1992). "AIDS Survivors Say Politics is Good for Your Health," In These Times, Dec. 25, 1991. "Government Policies," International Encyclopedia of Robotics: Applications and Automation (3 vols.), ed. R. dorf and S. Nof. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1988. "Making Knowledge a Commodity: Increased Corporate Influence Over the Universities," IEEE Technology and Society, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 8-17, 1986. "Institutional Bio-Safety Committees and the Inadequacies of Risk Regulation," Science, Technology, and Human Values, Vol. 9, Issue 4, No. 49, pp. 16-34, Fall 1984. "Household Technology and the Social Construction of Housework" (with C. E. Bose and M. Malloy), Technology and Culture, Vol. 25, No. 1, January 1984. Technology as a Social and Political Phenomenon, John Wiley and Sons, 1976.
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