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Banking on DNA: The New Non-Invasive Prenatal Tests in Comparative Perspective

January 8, 2018 - 12:00 pm

Seminar on Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of Genetics

Center for Research on Ethical/Legal/Social Implications of Psychiatric, Neurologic & Behavioral Genetics

Department of Psychiatry

Columbia University Medical Center

 

Monday, January 8, 2018 12:00-1:00pm

Rm. 10-405A&B, Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research

10th Floor, Presbyterian Hospital (PH) Building, 622 W. 168th Street 

 

Banking on DNA: The New Non-Invasive Prenatal Tests

 in Comparative Perspective

 

Rayna Rapp, PhD

Professor of Anthropology

New York University

Qualitative social scientists have produced powerful and nuanced analyses of the benefits and burdens experienced by pregnant women and their supporters when accessing reproductive technologies. What lessons can be drawn from this ethnographic corpus that will help us to situate the social and cultural tensions now spreading with the rapid expansion and uptake of the new non-invasive prenatal tests?
Upcoming Presentations

February 12th – Sharon Schwartz, PhD, Dept. of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health

March 19th – Gail Geller, PhD, Dept. of Medicine & Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns

Hopkins University

April 16th – Vence Bonham, Jr., JD, Office of the Director and Social & Behavioral Research

Branch, NHGRI

May 14th – Robert Krueger, PhD, Dept. of Psychology, University of Minnesota

 

For further information or to convey suggestions about future speakers, contact Paul S. Appelbaum, MD, Director, Center for Research on Ethical/Legal/Social Implications of Psychiatric, Neurologic & Behavioral Genetics, Department of Psychiatry, at 646-774-8630 or psa21@columbia.edu.