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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

2^nd 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?
                      

13^th April 2005

Knowledge to Action? The diffusion of innovations into practice

Speaker.  Louise Fitzgerald, de Montfort University    

4.30 – 6pm Room 1.10 FWB

4^th 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

1^st 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

6^th July 2005

Researching babies’ views and rights

Speaker.  Priscilla Alderson, Social Science Research Unit, Institute of Education 

4.30 – 6pm Room 1.10 FWB

7^th 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

5^th October 2005

Ethnographic reflections on the ethics of embryonic stem cells.

Speaker.  Steve Wainwright, King’s College, London

4.30 – 6pm Room TBA FWB

2^nd November 2005

The IVF Stem Cell interface

Speaker. Sarah Franklin, BIOS, London School of Economics

4.30 – 6pm Room TBA FWB

7^th 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