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Focal point 4 |
Bio-Politics
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Workshop 4.1 |
"Reproductive Rights - Reproductive Freedom" |
Samstag, 10.09.2005, 11.30-13.15 h
Heinrich-Böll Foundation Berlin, Germany
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| Speakers
Facilitator: David King, Human Genetics Alert, United Kingdom
Discussion about:
- From contingent sex to choice through technology: the biotech challenge for gender
- What do the old and new claims for reproductive rights and reproductive health mean within the context of the new technical intervention in human life?
- What are the concepts of different actors within the field of biotech?
- What’s the meaning of choice in a situation where deviancies from the norm can be diagnosed in ever earlier stages of embryonic development, and parents – but in many cases women alone – are left to decide whether to continue pregnancy? Having in mind that this decision of individuals has far reaching social consequences that may even lead to forms of “consumer eugenics”
- And: what does freedom of choice mean when it refers to possibilities of the commodification of the own body?
- What could be feminist strategies to deal with the new technologies?
| Contact
Andreas Poltermann, Heinrich Böll Stiftung, Berlin
E-Mail poltermann@boell.de, Homepage http://www.boell.de/
Aktualisiert: 12.08.2005, hbr
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