Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge
Friday 17 November 2006 and Friday 2 March 2007
This pair of workshops aims to promote communication and exchange among people in Cambridge working on various aspects of reproduction. They follow a successful event involving Free School Lane institutions last year. Informal 20-minute talks will introduce the work of an individual or group to an interdisciplinary audience. The workshops are open to all Cambridge-based researchers.
Zeynep Gürtin-Broadbent (Centre for Family Research)
Nick Hopwood (Department of History and Philosophy of Science)
Organised by the Cambridge Interdisciplinary Reproduction Forum with support from a Wellcome enhancement award in history of medicine to the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
Friday 17 November 2006
| 9.00am | Registration |
|---|---|
| 9.15am | Welcome and introductions |
| SESSION 1 – Chair: Marilyn Strathern (Social Anthropology) | |
| 9.30am | Amber Steele (Psychiatry) The psychobiology of premenstrual mood |
| 10.00am | Emilia G. Sanabria (Social Anthropology) 'Menstruation: useless blood'? Recent debates in contraceptive health |
| 10.30am | Susan Walker (SPS) The differing needs of men and women with regard to information about contraception |
| 11.00am | Coffee |
| SESSION 2 – Chair: Susan Golombok (CFR) | |
| 11.30am | Vasanti Jadva (CFR) Surrogacy: the experiences of commissioning couples, surrogate children and surrogate mothers |
| 12noon | Monica M. E. Bonaccorso (Social Anthropology) Narrating the baby: heterosexual and lesbian and gay accounts of gamete donation |
| 12.30pm | Zeynep Gürtin-Broadbent (CFR) 'God's will and doctor's orders': Turkish responses to infertility and fertility treatments |
| 1.00pm | Lunch |
| SESSION 3 – Chair: Rebecca Flemming (Classics) | |
| 2.00pm | Sophia Connell (Philosophy) Ancient theories of reproduction: Aristotle on heredity |
| 2.30pm | Laurence Totelin (HPS) Anonymous and pseudonymous midwives in Graeco-Roman medical works |
| 3.00pm | Tea |
| SESSION 4 – Chair: John Forrester (HPS) | |
| 3.30pm | Véronique Mottier (SPS) Reproductive sexuality, eugenics and the Swiss 'dream of order' |
| 4.00pm | Martin Richards (CFR) Eugenics California-style in the 1980s: Robert Klark Graham and his Nobel Germinal Repository |
| 4.30pm | Tamara Kayali (HPS) Genetic engineering versus environmental engineering of children: is there an ethical difference? |
Friday 2 March 2007
| 9.00am | Registration |
|---|---|
| 9.15am | Welcome and introductions |
| SESSION 1 – Chair: Richard Smith (Cambridge Group for the History of Population & Social Structure: Campop) | |
| 9.30am | Catherine Rider (History and HPS) Reproductive problems and sexual incompatibility in the late Middle Ages |
| 10.00am | Thomas Nutt (Campop) Illegitimate reproduction? Welfare responses to births outside wedlock in eighteenth and early-nineteenth century England |
| 10.30am | Eilidh Garrett, Alice Reid and Ros Davies (Campop and Geography) 'Few and simple pleasures': a comparison of fertility behaviour in selected Scottish settings, 1861–1901 |
| 11.00am | Coffee |
| SESSION 2 – Chair: Martin Richards (CFR) | |
| 11.30am | Francesca Moore (Geography) The historical geography of abortion in Lancashire, 1860–1930 |
| 12noon | Helen Statham (CFR) Late abortion for fetal abnormality: law, policy and practice in the UK |
| 12.30pm | Hilary Thomas (Centre for Research in Primary and Community Care & School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Hertfordshire) Reproductive experiences of women with major illness |
| 1.00pm | Lunch |
| SESSION 3 – Chair: Zeynep Gürtin-Broadbent (CFR) | |
| 2.00pm | Merve Demircioglu (Social Anthropology) Infertility and new reproductive technologies: ethnographic responses from Euro-America and the rest |
| 2.30pm | Françoise Barbira-Freedman (Social Anthropology) The social impact of the anthropology of childbirth |
| 3.00pm | Tea |
| SESSION 4 – Chair: Nick Hopwood (HPS) | |
| 3.30pm | Jim Secord (HPS) Embryos and evolution in mid-nineteenth-century Britain |
| 4.00pm | Salim Al-Gailani (HPS) The maternal imagination in nineteenth-century medicine |
| 4.30pm | John Forrester (HPS) Robert J. Stoller and the invention of gender |
