Apologies for cross-posting Please see below information about the 2005 programme Women's Health and Society Seminar Series Women' s and Family Health Research Group, King's College, London All seminars are open to the public and no booking is required All seminars will be held in the Franklin-Wilkins Building, Waterloo Campus, King's College, London Travel details and map here http://www.kcl.ac.uk/about/maa/waterloo.html Contact. [log in to unmask] Tel. 0207 848 3023 Florence Nightingale School of Nursing & Midwifery Women's and Family Health Research Group 2nd March 2005 Social Services: Support or Hindrance? Speaker. Beverley Beech, Association for Improvements in Maternity Services 4.30 - 6pm Room 1.10 FWB In the past the role of the social worker was to support the mother and help those who the health visitors or midwives had identified as having social problems. Over the last few years, health professionals are being pushed into a monitoring role, and with all the scare stories of potential child abuse, too many women are being reported to Social Services and targeted for foster care and future adoption. The focus of this seminar is on protecting the 'interests of the child', but how can the interests of the child be served when it is torn away from its family and shunted around multiple foster carers? 13th April 2005 Knowledge to Action? The diffusion of innovations into practice Speaker. Louise Fitzgerald, de Montfort University 4.30 - 6pm Room 1.10 FWB 4th May 2005 Anticipatory accounts: vocabularies of motive and the anticipation of future health related conduct (infant feeding choices) Speaker. Elizabeth Murphy, Nottingham University 4.30 - 6pm Room 1.10 FWB 1st June 2005 Where not to be born in the 1860's - how Florence Nightingale and her contemporaries used maternal mortality statistics Speaker. Alison Macfarlane, City University 4.30 - 6pm Room 1.10 FWB 6th July 2005 Researching babies' views and rights Speaker. Priscilla Alderson, Social Science Research Unit, Institute of Education 4.30 - 6pm Room 1.10 FWB 7th September 2005 Title: Pregnant Embodiment in mid-Twentieth century Australia Speaker. Catherine Kevin, Menzies Centre, King's College, London 4.30 - 6pm Room TBA. FWB 5th October 2005 Ethnographic reflections on the ethics of embryonic stem cells. Speaker. Steve Wainwright, King's College, London 4.30 - 6pm Room TBA FWB 2nd November 2005 The IVF Stem Cell interface Speaker. Sarah Franklin, BIOS, London School of Economics 4.30 - 6pm Room TBA FWB 7th December 2005 Preparing for birth with anxiety or confidence? Themes from a feasability study for a trial of massage and childbirth Speaker. Chris McCourt, Thames Valley University 4.30 - 6pm Room TBA FWB Dr Jane Sandall Professor of Midwifery and Women's Health Women & Family 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 e-mail:[log in to unmask] http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nursing/research/women.html