I thought some of you might find this of interest.
Stefanie
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>FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FEMINIST APPROACHES TO BIOETHICS
> in conjunction with the Third World Congress, International Association of
>Bioethics; Parc 55 Hotel, San Francisco, November 24-25, 1996.
>SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24
>
>6:00 - 7:30 P.M.||WELCOMING RECEPTION|
>
>7:45 - 9:45 P.M. ||CONCURRENT SESSION I
>
>#1 REPRODUCTION, RACE, AND CLASS: PART I:
CHAIR: Joan Callahan, Ph.D., Department of Philosophy, University
of Kentucky |
SPEAKERS:
Patricia Jennings, Ph.D.(c), Department of Sociology,
University of Kentucky
"Irresponsible Reproducers: Race, Class, and
Dominant Hegemony of PoorWomen's
Reproduction"
Dorothy Roberts, J.D.,Rutgers School of Law, Newark, NJ
"Long Acting Contraceptives: Access or Excess?"
Annette Dula,Ed.D, Center for the Study of Ethnicity and
Race in America, University of Colorado
"An African American Perspective on Reproductive Freedom"
Margaret Battin, Ph.D., Department of Philosophy, University of Utah. ||
"Color and Culture: Long-term Contraception"
>
>
>#2 COLLABORATIVE REPRODUCTION:
CHAIR: Cheri Pies, MSW, DrPH, School of Public Health, University of
California, Berkeley (Participating Chair)
SPEAKERS:
Margaret Little, Ph.D., Kennedy Institute of Ethics,
Georgetown University
"Surrogacy' and the Meanings of Motherhood: What's a
Good Feminist to Do?"
Rachel Ankeny Majeske, Ph.D., Center for Medical Ethics, University
>||| of Pittsburgh
"Ovum Donation: Perceptions of Risk and Donor Preferences"
Adrienne Asch, Ph.D., Program on the Politics of Human
Reproduction, Wellesley College
"Parenthood, Intentionality, and Relationship"
Roxanne Mykitiuk, LL.B., Law School of York
"Base Pairs and Dissolving Couples: Regulating
Reproductive Technologies in Canada" ||
>
>#3 GENDER, CONSENT, AND CONTROL:
CHAIR: Wanda Teays, Ph.D. Department of Philosophy, Mt. St. Mary's
College
SPEAKERS:
Barbara Secker, Ph.D., Department of Philosophy and Joint
Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto
"Destroying the Power/Right to Consent: The Gender
Politics of `Incompetence' Labelling"
Kathryn Morgan, Ph.D., Department of Philosophy and Joint
Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto
"Destroying the Power/Right to Refuse: The Gender
Politics of Male Physician, Female Patient Sex"
Irene Diamond, Ph.D., Department of Political Science, University of Oregon
"Control of the Body: Ecological Feminist Questions"
Re-Feng Tang, Ph.D., Institute of Philosophy, Chinese
Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing
"Choice Between Two Vices: Ethical Dilemmas in China's Population
Policy and Family Planning"
>
>MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25
>
>7:00 - 8 A.M.|COMPLIMENTARY CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
>
>8:15 - 9:45 A.M.|PLENARY SESSION A
>
>#4 FEMINISM, DISABILITY, AND GENETICS
CHAIR: Mary Mahowald, Ph.D., Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology,
University of Chicago (Participating Chair)
SPEAKERS:
Mary Mahowald, Ph.D., Department of Obstetrics and
Gynecology, University of Chicago
"Is Feminism Compatible with Advocacy for the Disabled?"
Anita Silvers, Ph.D., Department of Philosophy, San
Francisco State University|
"What Offspring are Worth Living?"
Marsha Saxton, Ph.D., School of Public Health, University of
California
"Prenatal Diagnosis and Disability Rights"
Alison Brookes, Ph.D.(c), Faculty of Arts, Deakin
University, Australia
"Prenatal Genetic Screening: Differing Perceptions of Disability"
Kristi Kirschner, M.D., Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago.
"How Well Are We Teaching Disability Concepts in
Medical Education?"
>
>10 A.M. - 11:30 A.M. |CONCURRENT SESSION II
>
># 6 : WOMEN'S HEALTH IN EMERGING ECONOOMIES, PART I
CHAIR: Laura Shanner, Ph.D., Department of Philosophy and Joint
Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto
(Participating Chair)
SPEAKERS:
Viola Schubert-Lehnhardt, dr. Habil, Halle, Germany
"The East German Experience"
Lisa Handwerker, Ph.D., MPH, California Institute of
Integral Studies and Department of Anthropology,
Stanford University
"The Commodification of Health Care and Infertility
Treatment: Social and Ethical Implications for
Diverse Women in Modern China"
Laura Shanner, Department of Philosophy and Joint Centre for
Bioethics, University of Toronto
"Abortion, Chernobyl, and Post-Soviet Russia"
>
># 7 REPRODUCTION, RACE, AND CLASS, PART II: Caring About Autonomy
CHAIR: Joan Callahan, Ph.D., Department of Philosophy, University of
Kentucky
SPEAKERS:
Jurema Werneck, M.D., CRIOLA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
"Female Surgical Sterilization: A Challenge
for Bioethics"
Fernanda Carneiro, M.Sc., National Public Health
School, FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
"Experiencing Limits: Reproductive Rights and Autonomy"
Alejandra Rotania, Center for the Study of Urban and Rural Women,
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
"Between Blood and Symbol: Reflections on
New Reproductive Technologies and
Adoption"
>
># 8 RECONSTRUCTING BIOETHICS DISCOURSE: CENTERING THE MARGINALIZED
CHAIR: Barbara Nicholas, Ph.D., Bioethics Research Centre,
University of Otago, New Zealand (Participating Chair)
SPEAKERS:
Helen Bequaert Holmes Ph.D., Center for Genetics,
Ethics, and Women; Amherst, Massachusetts.
"Building Rafts: The Gulf Between Center and Margin"
Mary Rawlinson, Ph.D., Department of Philosophy, State University of
New York at Stony Brook
"The Concept of a Feminist Bioethics"
Barbara Nicholas, Ph.D., Bioethics, Research Centre,University of Otago,
New Zealand
"Strategies for Effective Transformation"
>
>11:30 A.M. - 1 P.M.||LUNCH (on your own)
>
>1 P.M. - 2:30 P.M.||PLENARY SESSION B
>
># 9 INTEGRATING JUSTICE AND CARE: A FEMINIST APPROACH TO BIOETHICAL THEORY
CHAIR: Anne Donchin, Ph.D., Department of Philosophy, Indiana|
University, Indianapolis (Participating Chair)
SPEAKERS:
Anne Donchin, Ph.D., Department of Philosophy, Indiana University,
Indianapolis
"Integrating Justice and Care: A Feminist Approach to Bioethical Theory"
Laura Purdy, Ph.D., Department of Philosophy, Wells College
"Just Caring?: The Delivery of Health Services"
Alisa Carse, Ph.D., Department of Philosophy and Kennedy
Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University
"The Ethic of Care: Its Promise and Its Perils"
Rosemarie Tong, Ph.D., Departments of Philosophy and Medical
Humanities, Davidson College
"Just Caring About Maternal-Fetal Relations: The Case of
Cocaine-Using Pregnant Women"
>
>2:45 P.M. - 4:15 P.M.|CONCURRENT SESSION III
>
># 10 FERTILITY AND GENETIC INTERVENTIONS
CHAIR: Gwen Anderson, Ph.D.(c), Shriver Center for Mental
Retardation, Waltham, MA
SPEAKERS:
Susana E. Sommer, Lic., Faculty of Sciences, University of Buenos Aires
"Genetic Counseling in Argentina"
Lisa Parker, Ph.D., Department of Human Genetics, University of Pittsburgh
"Being Pregnant: Others' Interests and Standards of Care"
Mary V. Rorty, Ph.D. Bioethics Center, University of Virginia
and Stanford University
"Fetal Reduction: Elective or Eugenic?"
>
>#11 WOMEN'S HEALTH ISSUES IN EMERGING ECONOMIES, PART II
CHAIR: Laura Shanner, Ph.D., Department of Philosophy and
Joint Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto
SPEAKERS:|
Laurel Guymer, Women's Studies, Deakin University, Australia
"Anti-hCG Vaccines or Not? -- An Ethical Conundrum"
Nikki Jones, Ford Foundation, Philippines
"Birth Practices in West Africa and the Philippines: Challenges for a
Western Feminist"|
Bela Blasszauer, DJ, Ph.D., Medical University of Pecs, Hungary
Nursing Education and Practice in Post-Soviet Hungary"
>
># 12 JUSTICE IN AN UNJUST WORLD
CHAIR: Robert Nelson, M.D., Ph.D., Children's Hospital of Wisconsin
SPEAKERS:
Marianna Bridge, RNC, M.S. and
Lisa Kaiser, J.D., Arizona Department of Health|
"An Application of Karen Lebacqz's Justice Theory to
Public Health Services"
Karen Lebacqz, Ph.D., Pacific School of ReligionResponse
"Response to Bridge and Kaiser"
Lisa Eckenwiler, Ph.D.(c), Department of Philosophy, University of
Tennessee, Knoxville
"Reframing Conceptions of Social Justice in Clinical
Research on Women"
Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley, Ph.D., Department of Philosophy,
California State University, Bakersfield
"Is Liberty and Justice for All Possible within the American
Health Care System?"
>
>#13 MINDFUL BODIES
CHAIR: Mary Anne Warren, Ph.D., Department of Philosophy,
San Francisco State University
SPEAKERS:
Wendy Rogers, M.D., Department of General Practice,
Flinders Medical Centre, Australia
"A Philosophical Analysis of Western Responses to the
Menopause"
Diane Beeson, Ph.D., Institute for the Study of Social Change,
California State University;
Hayward and Renee Anspach,Ph.D., Department of Sociology, University of
Michigan
"Emotions and (Bio)Ethics"
Susan Dodds, Ph.D., Department of Philosophy, University of Wollongong,
Australia.
"Choice and Control in Bioethics"
>
>4:30 P.M. -- 6 P.M.|BUSINESS MEETING
>
>6 P.M. - 8 P.M.|DINNER (on your own)
>
>8 P.M. - 9:30 P.M.|PLENARY SESSION C
>
># 14 REFLECTIONS ON AUTONOMY, AGENCY, AND RESISTANCE
CHAIR: Susan Sherwin, Ph.D., Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie
University (Participating Chair)
SPEAKERS:
Jocelyn Downie, LL.B., Institute of Health Law, DalhousieUniversity;
Francoise Baylis, Ph.D., Bioethics Research Centre, Dalhousie University;
Maria De Koninck, Ph.D., Department of Sociology, Universite Laval
Margaret Lock, Ph.D., Department of Anthropology, McGill University.
Kathryn Morgan, Ph.D., Joint Centre for Bioethics and Department of
Philosophy, University of Toronto
"A Collective Report on a Collaborative Research Project on Feminist
Health Care Ethics: The Process of Interdisciplinary Research,
and the Themes that have Emerged Over the Three-and-a-half Year
Span of the Project"
>9:30 P.M. - 10 P.M.||CONCLUDING REMARKS
>TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26|POST CONFERENCE POWER BREAKFAST (for future planning).
>8 A.M.||All FAB members welcome; location to be announced.|||| ||
>CONFERENCE ON FEMINIST APPROACHES TO BIOETHICS
>Crowne Plaza Parc 55 Hotel, San Francisco
>November 24-25, 1996
>
>This conference is being held in conjunction with the Third International
>Congress of the International Association of Bioethics, the annual meeting
>of the American Association of Bioethics, a bioethics summit of national
>ethics commission members, a meeting co-sponsored by the Human Genome
>Organization (HUGO) on the human genome diversity project and the patenting
>of human genes, and several additional side conferences.
>
>Registration for ALL Conferences: payable directly to:
Congress Secretariat, III World Congress on Bioethics
Pacific Center for Health Policy and Ethics
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0071 USA.
Phone: (213) 740-2541. Fax: (213) 740-5502.
>
>You may register electronically by using the form provided on the web pages
>(see address below) or using the circular sent to all FAB members by the IAB
>organizers. Limited scholarships providing reduced registration fees
>($40) are available to those who fall in the following categories:
>student, developing nations, and un/underemployed. Make your request when
>registering. For further details about registration fees see the web pages
>or contact the Congress Secretariat directly.
>
>Accommodations: available at the Parc 55 Hotel, 55 Cyril Magnis Street in
>the Union Square section of San Francisco. The conference rate is available
>from November 19-26 at $95 per night plus 14% city room tax (single or
>double occupancy). Reserve directly with the hotel (phone: 800-850-7272;
>fax: 415-421-5993) specifying that you will be attending the Bioethics
>Conference. This rate is guaranteed only through October 29. For
>information about more modest accommodations contact the Congress
>Secretariat. If you wish to share a room with another FAB member put an
>announcement on the FAB list serve.
>
>Travel: United Airlines is offering 5% off the lowest published domestic
>fares and 10% off applicable BUA or like fares. Contact United Meeting Desk
>at (800) 521-4041, reference ID code 565LM.
>
>
>For last minute program changes consult the FAB list serve or contact: Anne
>Donchin:
By e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>For general information about local arrangements contact the IAB Congress
>Secretariat at the address shown above.
>
>For specific problems contact Jacquelyn Ann Kegley by e-mail:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED],
>fax: (805) 665-6904, phone (805) 664-2249, or post: California State
>University, Bakersfield, 9001 Stockdale Highway, Bakersfield, CA 93311-1099.
>
>Website for information about conference details (including all conferences
>meeting in conjunction with the International Association of Bioethics
>Congress):
http://www.usc.edu/dept/law-lib/bioethics/world-congress.html| |
>Feminist Approaches to Bio-ethics
>contributions: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>administrator: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Joan C. Callahan / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Professor, Department of Philosophy
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506-0027
606-257-1861
"Students might forget what you say,
but they'll never forget how you make them feel."
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Dept. of Women's Studies, University of South Florida, Tampa.
Tel. 813-974-0982/FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Stefanie S. Rixecker
Department of Resource Management
Lincoln University, Canterbury
Aotearoa New Zealand
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