[Sci-tech-public] REMINDER -- Monday, November 17 -- Arthur Miller Lecture on Science and Ethics: Ruth Schwartz Cowan, speaker

[Debbie Meinbresse]

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>2008 Arthur Miller Lecture on Science and Ethics  -  November 17, 2008
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>Climbing Up the Slippery Slope:  The History of Genetic Screening
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>Ruth Schwartz Cowan
>4:00 pm, MIT, Bartos Theater (
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><http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=E15&mapsearch=go>E15-070,
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>lower level)
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>Abstract:
>Is genetic screening a new form of eugenics?  This history of the 
>technologies of screening does bioethics with historian's tools--and 
>answers that question with a resounding "no."
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>Bio:
>Ruth Schwartz Cowan is the Janice and Julian Bers Professor of the 
>History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. 
>Professor Cowan is an historian of science, technology and medicine. 
>Her areas of specialization include history of technology, history 
>of genetics, genetics and social policy, history of reproduction, 
>history of medical technology, gender and science, medicine, and 
>technology. She was a member of the History Department of the State 
>University of New York at Stony Brook from 1967 to 2002, attaining 
>the rank of Professor in 1984 and Emerita Professor in 2002. Between 
>1997 and 2002, she was the Chair of the Honors College at SUNY-Stony 
>Brook; she also served as Director of Women's Studies from 
>1985-1990. Professor Cowan received her Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins 
>University, her M.A. from the University of California at Berkeley, 
>and her B.A. from Barnard College.
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>Professor Cowan is the author of four books and numerous articles. 
>Her books are: The Social History of American Technology (New York: 
>Oxford University Press, 1997); (with Neil M. Cowan) Our Parents' 
>Lives: The Americanization of Eastern European Jews (New York: Basic 
>Books, 1989) [revised second edition published as Our Parent's 
>Lives: Everyday Life and Jewish Assimilation (New Brunswick: Rutgers 
>University Press, 1996)]; Sir Francis Galton and the Study of 
>Heredity in the Nineteenth Century (New York: Garland Press, 1985); 
>and More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from 
>the Open Hearth to the Microwave (New York: Basic Books, 1983). Her 
>most recent book 
><http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/COWHER.html>Heredity and Hope: 
>the Case for Genetic Screening was published by Harvard University 
>Press in May, 2008.
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>Please join us on November 17th for Ruth Schwartz Cowan's Arthur 
>Miller Lecture on Science and Ethics. For more information, please 
>contact Debbie Meinbresse at meinbres at mit.edu or 617-452-2390.
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