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.
