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Inside View
Exploring the issues of prenatal screening
A live Multimedia performance with discussion
21st September 2005 at 17.00 - 18.30 in lecture theatre 1, Ground
floor, New Hunts House, Guy's Campus, King's College, London. FREE.
This performance is funded by the Wellcome Trust and produced by
the Institute of Health at Warwick University. It seeks to
stimulate debate about the social, moral and ethical issues of
prenatal screening technologies. The target audience are both
health professionals and pregnant women and their partners.
The production focuses on the findings of a research project
conducted with partners in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at
King's College and City University. The project explored the
Social and Organisational Implications of New Prenatal Genetic
Screening Technologies, and was funded by the ESRC within the
Innovative Health Technologies Programme (L21825042). Interviews
and questionnaires from several hundred pregnant woman and health
care professionals from two different locations inform the
performance.
Inside View draws upon the documented knowledge women acquire at
their first booking with the health professionals and in particular
some of the consequences of earlier scanning and biochemical
chromosomal testing. Issues include the expectation and knowledge
women already have before their first visit to the clinic and the
preparation given to women to accept difficult choices they may
never previously have encountered or considered.
Through live performance we demonstrate the impact of technology's
gift of a clearer, accessible inside view. A single performer
speaks for Everywoman in this humorous and provocative
investigation of the fundamental questions about the human
interface with technology.
The performance does not promote any single position on the issues
to be explored but, in the best tradition of theatre, it poses
questions in the light of an enhanced understanding.
For further information please contact:
Karen van Rompaey
Institute of Health, University of Warwick
Tel.: +44 (0)2476 5231654
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Dr Jane Sandall
Professor of Midwifery and Women's Health
Midwifery and Women's Health Research Group,
Health and Social Care Research Division
King's College, Waterloo Bridge Wing,
150 Stamford Street,
London, SE1 9NH
Tel: 020 7848 3605
Fax: 020 7848 3764
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http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nursing/research/women.html
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