"Reproducing Normality: Disability, prenatal testing and bioethics"
In the past 30 years, prenatal testing of the fetus has become increasingly common practice in pregnancy. While few women pursue a pregnancy without encountering some form of prenatal testing – most usually, ultrasound and associated fetoplacental hormone tests in the first trimester of pregnancy – the ethical issues that arise from this are far from resolved. The raison d’etre of prenatal testing is to detect fetal anomalies. This enables– and requires – women (and their partners) to make choices about whether to continue a pregnancy or not. In doing so, these technologies prompt difficult questions about reproductive autonomy, the ethics of selective terminations of pregnancy on the basis of fetal anomalies, and conceptions of normality. Presented by the Centre for Values, Ethics and Law in Medicine, and Unit for the History and Philosophy of Science, at the University of Sydney, this workshop addresses these questions and others raised by prenatal testing. The presenters articulate new ways of thinking about disability and the impacts of prenatal testing. Speakers include eminent scholars from the disciplines of bioethics, disability studies, law, philosophy and sociology. Speakers: Tom Shakespeare (WHO), Dr Isabel Karpin (UTS), Dr Kristin Savell (Sydney), Dr Catherine Mills (Sydney), Dr Jackie Leach Scully (Newcastle, UK), Dr Robert Sparrow (Monash), and Professor Clare Williams (Brunel). Time/Date: commencing 9.20am and concluding 4.30pm, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 Location: Room 105, Law School Annex, University of Sydney Cost: The workshop is free to attend but registration is essential. Contact: Ms Lindy Gaze, email [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> or telephone 02 9036 3045. Website: http://sydney.edu.au/medicine/velim/news/forthcoming/index.php Organizer: Dr Catherine Mills ------------------------------------- DR CATHERINE MILLS | Sesqui Lecturer in Bioethics (Senior Lecturer) Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine| Sydney Medical School Unit for History and Philosophy of Science | Faculty of Science THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY Medical Foundation Building K25 | The University of Sydney | NSW | 2006 T +61 2 9036 3409 | F +61 2 9036 3436 | W http://www.usyd.edu.au/hps/staff/academic/Catherine_Mills.shtml Co-ordinator, Sydney Bioethics Program| W http://www.usyd.edu.au/bioethics/ CRICOS 00026A This email plus any attachments to it are confidential. Any unauthorised use is strictly prohibited. If you receive this email in error, please delete it and any attachments.
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