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SYMPOSIUM – Testing Women, Testing the Fetus 20th Anniversary Symposium

Datum
07. Novem­ber – 08. Novem­ber 2019 

Keynote: Pro­fes­sor Ray­na Rapp
Host: Dr Lucy Lowe (Uni­ver­si­ty of Edin­burgh) and Pro­fes­sor Khiara M. Bridges (UC Berkeley)

7th – 8th Novem­ber 2019
Edin­burgh Cen­tre for Med­ical Anthropology
Uni­ver­si­ty of Edinburgh

This year marks twen­ty years since the pub­li­ca­tion of Pro­fes­sor Ray­na Rapp’s sem­i­nal mono­graph Test­ing Women, Test­ing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amnio­cen­te­sis in Amer­i­ca. This ethnog­ra­phy, an award-win­ning clas­sic text of fem­i­nist and med­ical anthro­pol­o­gy, has inspired a gen­er­a­tion of schol­ars work­ing on repro­duc­tion, dis­abil­i­ty, genet­ics, bioethics, and par­ent­ing. This mono­graph takes us to the com­plex inter­sec­tion of inti­mate fam­i­ly rela­tion­ships, cut­ting-edge med­ical tech­nol­o­gy, race, genet­ic coun­selling, and obstet­ric care, under­scored by clas­sic anthro­po­log­i­cal con­cerns with kin­ship and inher­i­tance. Rapp’s ques­tion, ‚What does sci­en­tif­ic lit­er­a­cy mean in a cul­ture as deeply strat­i­fied as our own?’ is per­haps even more per­ti­nent in 2019 than it was in 1999.

Repro­duc­tive tech­nolo­gies have devel­oped apace in the two decades since this ground-break­ing ethnog­ra­phy was pub­lished, as transna­tion­al sci­en­tif­ic com­mu­ni­ties con­tin­u­al­ly pro­duce new fron­tiers in repro­duc­tive sci­ence and genet­ic tech­nol­o­gy. This peri­od of med­ical advance­ment has been fos­tered in shift­ing spaces of repro­duc­tive pol­i­tics. Laws on access to con­tra­cep­tives, abor­tion, and assist­ed repro­duc­tive tech­nolo­gies have remained the most vis­i­ble, but by no means the entire­ty of repro­duc­tive pol­i­tics, where we con­tin­ue to wit­ness ‚the inter­sec­tion of per­son­al pain and nation­al pol­i­tics.’ The the­o­ret­i­cal chal­lenges in Test­ing Women con­tin­ue to be rel­e­vant. Where can we locate ‚moral pio­neers’ in con­tem­po­rary med­ical set­tings? How can we make ethno­graph­ic research speak to both anthro­po­log­i­cal and med­ical communities?

This sym­po­sium will draw togeth­er schol­ars inspired by Test­ing Women, Test­ing the Fetus to explore its con­tin­ued the­o­ret­i­cal con­tri­bu­tion in present and future research. We invite abstracts (250 words max) that speak to the themes, the­o­ries, and method­olog­i­cal chal­lenges pre­sent­ed by Pro­fes­sor Rapp’s work. Please send them to lucy.lowe@ed.ac.uk<mail­to:lucy.lowe@ed.ac.uk> and khiara.m.bridges@berkeley.edu<mail­to:khiara.m.bridges@berkeley.edu> by 4th Sep­tem­ber 2019.

Dr Lucy Lowe
Direc­tor, Edin­burgh Cen­tre for Med­ical Anthropology

Uni­ver­si­ty of Edinburgh
15a George Square
EH8 9LD

http://www.san.ed.ac.uk/people/faculty/lucy_lowe
Twit­ter<https://twitter.com/lucyjlowe?lang=en>


Keynote: Pro­fes­sor Ray­na Rapp
Host: Dr Lucy Lowe (Uni­ver­si­ty of Edin­burgh) and Pro­fes­sor Khiara M. Bridges (UC Berkeley)

7th – 8th Novem­ber 2019
Edin­burgh Cen­tre for Med­ical Anthropology
Uni­ver­si­ty of Edinburgh

This year marks twen­ty years since the pub­li­ca­tion of Pro­fes­sor Ray­na Rapp’s sem­i­nal mono­graph Test­ing Women, Test­ing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amnio­cen­te­sis in Amer­i­ca. This ethnog­ra­phy, an award-win­ning clas­sic text of fem­i­nist and med­ical anthro­pol­o­gy, has inspired a gen­er­a­tion of schol­ars work­ing on repro­duc­tion, dis­abil­i­ty, genet­ics, bioethics, and par­ent­ing. This mono­graph takes us to the com­plex inter­sec­tion of inti­mate fam­i­ly rela­tion­ships, cut­ting-edge med­ical tech­nol­o­gy, race, genet­ic coun­selling, and obstet­ric care, under­scored by clas­sic anthro­po­log­i­cal con­cerns with kin­ship and inher­i­tance. Rapp’s ques­tion, ‚What does sci­en­tif­ic lit­er­a­cy mean in a cul­ture as deeply strat­i­fied as our own?’ is per­haps even more per­ti­nent in 2019 than it was in 1999.

Repro­duc­tive tech­nolo­gies have devel­oped apace in the two decades since this ground-break­ing ethnog­ra­phy was pub­lished, as transna­tion­al sci­en­tif­ic com­mu­ni­ties con­tin­u­al­ly pro­duce new fron­tiers in repro­duc­tive sci­ence and genet­ic tech­nol­o­gy. This peri­od of med­ical advance­ment has been fos­tered in shift­ing spaces of repro­duc­tive pol­i­tics. Laws on access to con­tra­cep­tives, abor­tion, and assist­ed repro­duc­tive tech­nolo­gies have remained the most vis­i­ble, but by no means the entire­ty of repro­duc­tive pol­i­tics, where we con­tin­ue to wit­ness ‚the inter­sec­tion of per­son­al pain and nation­al pol­i­tics.’ The the­o­ret­i­cal chal­lenges in Test­ing Women con­tin­ue to be rel­e­vant. Where can we locate ‚moral pio­neers’ in con­tem­po­rary med­ical set­tings? How can we make ethno­graph­ic research speak to both anthro­po­log­i­cal and med­ical communities?

This sym­po­sium will draw togeth­er schol­ars inspired by Test­ing Women, Test­ing the Fetus to explore its con­tin­ued the­o­ret­i­cal con­tri­bu­tion in present and future research. We invite abstracts (250 words max) that speak to the themes, the­o­ries, and method­olog­i­cal chal­lenges pre­sent­ed by Pro­fes­sor Rapp’s work. Please send them to lucy.lowe@ed.ac.uk<mail­to:lucy.lowe@ed.ac.uk> and khiara.m.bridges@berkeley.edu<mail­to:khiara.m.bridges@berkeley.edu> by 4th Sep­tem­ber 2019.

Dr Lucy Lowe
Direc­tor, Edin­burgh Cen­tre for Med­ical Anthropology

Uni­ver­si­ty of Edinburgh
15a George Square
EH8 9LD

http://www.san.ed.ac.uk/people/faculty/lucy_lowe
Twit­ter<https://twitter.com/lucyjlowe?lang=en>