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+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Posted Fri, 9 Sep 2005 09:47:16 This message was forwarded through MEDSOCNEWS. If you wish to make an announcement or publicise an event then please send the text to: [log in to unmask] MEDSOCNEWS is the electronic companion to Medical Sociology News - published 3 times a year by the Medical Sociology Group of the BSA. Please subscribe to this publication - details below +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 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 [log in to unmask] 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 e-mail:[log in to unmask] http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nursing/research/women.html ********************************************************************** 1. For general enquires or problems with the list or to CHANGE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS send a message to: [log in to unmask] 2. To suspend yourself from the list, whilst on leave, for example, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the following message: set medsocnews nomail 3. To resume email from the list, send the following message: set medsocnews mail 4. To leave MedSocNews, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message (leave the subject line blank and do not include a signature): leave medsocnews 5. To join or subscribe to MedSocNews, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message (leave the subject line blank and do not include a signature): SUBSCRIBE medsocnews firstname lastname 6. Further information about the medsocnews discussion list (including list archive and how to subscribe to or leave the list) can be found at the list web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medsocnews.html To subscribe to the paper version of Medical Sociology News - published 3 times a year by the Medical Sociology Group of the BSA please email Maureen Porter at: [log in to unmask] **********************************************************************