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Perspectives on PGD:
A one day seminar organized by the Postgraduate Forum on Genetics and Society
Venue: Clore Management Centre, Birbeck College, University of London
Date: Friday 20th November 2009 10:00 – 5:00
Morning Session: Legal and Theoretical perspectives
-Peter Lovett, Birkbeck College - Law's involvement with Preimplantation
Genetic Diagnosis & questions of enhancement: an alternative stance
-Sharon Persaud, Birkbeck College - Saviour siblings & the law: has Luhmann
anything useful to say?
Afternoon Session: Social and Bioethical perspectives
-Haniwarda Yaakob, University of Lancaster - Individual Reproductive
Autonomy in Malaysia: Why Couples Should be Allowed to Use Preimplantation
Genetic Diagnosis to Select the Sex of Their Child
-Ann-Marie Jones, Liverpool Hope University - The Disability Rights
Perspective on PGD
This day-long workshop aims to be a participative expertise-building event
for post-graduates, with a mix of presentations, workshops and ample time
for discussion.
Conference registration is free, but places are limited. Please email Sharon
Persaud at [log in to unmask] to secure your place.
Travel bursaries within the UK are available for postgraduate participants
and, if necessary, their carers. The Clore Management Centre at Birkbeck is
fully accessible. Please let us know the approximate amount of your ticket
(at advance purchase prices) when applying for attendance. We are
unfortunately not able to fund accommodation. Non-postgraduates may attend
this event, but will
not be eligible for travel bursaries.
The PFGS is a volunteer postgraduate forum which seeks to bring together
researchers interested in how biosciences and society(s) intersect. Set up
in 1998 to explore questions directly related to developments in genetics,
it has now expanded to provide a common forum for the next generation of
academic researchers from a spectrum of fields including - but not limited
to: sociology, psychology, anthropology, science and technology studies,
law, philosophy, art and science. Overall, our aim is to engage each other
in productive dialogue and capacity-building in the study of life sciences
and society.
The activities of the PFGS are kindly sponsored by the Genomics Forum. We
are also grateful to the journal New Genetics and Society for their partial
sponsorship of this one day workshop.
Find out more and join the PFGS at http://pfgs.org. Membership is free.
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Stevienna de Saille
Postgraduate Researcher
School of Sociology & Social Policy
University of Leeds
Leeds, LS2 9JT
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