Eva Kittay, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Emerita, Stony Brook University/SUNY

For 49 years we had no etiology of my daughter’s very significant cognitive and physical impairments. Then we got a genetic diagnosis…In this talk I will examine the responses this diagnosis evoked from us, whether there were any implications altering how we deal with my daughter’s disabilities, different ways genetic diagnoses impact families, and how we should understand a diagnosis of “de novo mutation/variation” for significant disabilities.

Seminar on Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of Genetics

12:00-1:00 pm

Rm. 405A and B, Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, 10th Floor, Presbyterian Hospital (PH) Building, 622 W. 168th Street, NYC