Tickets are still available for our 'Debating Reproduction: IVF'
Cambridge Festival of Ideas event next Thursday 20 October, 5pm-6.30pm
in the Exhibition Centre at Cambridge University Library, West Road.
In association with the 'Books and Babies' exhibition at the Cambridge
University Library, the Wellcome Trust funded Generation to Reproduction
project presents a debate on the history of scientific and ethical
issues surrounding in vitro fertilisation.
A panel of experts will give short introductions before opening up to
the floor for discussion and finishing with a vote.
In order to focus on historical perspectives, the debate question will
be framed around the UK Medical Research Council’s refusal to fund a
five-year grant application to support IVF research that was submitted
to it in 1971 by Robert Edwards and Patrick Steptoe. A copy of a
research paper on this MRC decision can be down loaded free of charge at:
http://humrep.oxfordjournals.org/content/25/9/2157.abstract?sid=a5077e19-c16d-481e-aca3-5a648316490f
The subject of the debate will be:
‘If I had been on the MRC Committee in 1971, would I have funded IVF
research?’
Panellists:
Professor Peter Braude (Women’s Health, King’s College and Guy’s
Hospital, London)
Dr Hallvard Lillehammer (Philosophy, Cambridge)
Professor Sarah Franklin (Sociology, London School of Economics)
Professor Martin H. Johnson (Reproductive Sciences, Physiology,
Development and Neuroscience, Cambridge)
Chair:
Dr Nick Hopwood (History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge)
To book, please telephone 01223 766766
or book online here:
http://cfi2011ivf.eventbrite.com/
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