Hughes, James

James Hughes

Bio

James Hughes Ph.D. is the Executive Director of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, and Secretary of the World Transhumanist Association. Dr. Hughes is a bioethicist and sociologist at Trinity College in Hartford Connecticut where he teaches Health Policy. He holds a doctorate in sociology from the University of Chicago, where he also taught bioethics. Dr. Hughes is author of Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Future (Westview Press, 2004), and produces a syndicated weekly radio program, Changesurfer Radio. He is working on a second book tentatively titled Cyborg Buddha: Using Neurotechnologies to Become Better People. He is a Fellow of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities and the Working Group on Ethics and Technology at Yale University. Dr. Hughes speaks on medical ethics, health care policy and future studies worldwide, and appears often radio and television.