Third CHMD Workshop

History & Ethics of Human Reproduction & Embryo Research

Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease, Wolfson Research Institute, University of Durham, Queen’s Campus Stockton, Friday, December 10, 2004

Sponsored by the Wellcome Trust.
In Collaboration with the School for Health and the Department of Philosophy, University of Durham.

The aim of this workshop is to discuss the historical value decisions as well as the interest groups that have influenced and shaped debates and practices surrounding human reproduction and the embryo in the course of the twentieth century and up to today. The workshop will bring together Historians and Philosophers on themes such as abortion, birth control practices, infertility, IVF, embryology, and embryonic stem cell research. We are particularly interested in discussing the historical and intellectual links between these fields, in Britain as well as in Germany.

Programme

12.00 Get Together and Buffet Lunch
13.15 Holger Maehle (Durham): Welcome and introductory remarks
13.30 Charlotte Augst (London): Making laws about reproductive medicine – a German/British comparison
14.30 Christine Hauskeller (Exeter): The scientific and public debate on stem cell medicine in Germany and the UK. Different histories – different ethical discourses
15.30 Coffee/Tea Break
16.00 Nick Hopwood (Cambridge): "Ourselves unborn"? Human embryology before IVF
17.00 Christina Benninghaus (Bielefeld): Displaying expertise: advice literature for infertile couples from the 19th and 20th century
18.00 Short Break
18.15 Gayle Davis (Glasgow): Abortion law reform and the Scottish medical community, c. 1960-1980
19.15 Lutz Sauerteig (Durham): Concluding remarks
19.30 End of Workshop
20.00 Dinner

Click here to download the Programme of the Workshop
Conference Report by Victoria L. Blake (CHMD, University of Durham, UK)