Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reproduction
Michaelmas: Friday 17 November 2006
9 – 9.15am
Registration and coffee
9.15 – 9.30am
Welcome and introductions
SESSION 1 – Chair: Marilyn Strathern (Social Anthropology)
9.30 – 10am
Amber Steele (Psychiatry)
The psychobiology of premenstrual mood
10 – 10.30am
Emilia G. Sanabria (Social Anthropology)
“Menstruation: useless blood”? Recent debates in
contraceptive health
10.30 – 11am
Susan Walker (SPS)
The differing needs of men and women with regard to
information about contraception
11 – 11.30am
Coffee
SESSION 2 – Chair: Susan Golombok (CFR)
11.30 – 12noon
Vasanti Jadva (CFR)
Surrogacy: the experiences of commissioning couples,
surrogate children and surrogate mothers
12 – 12.30pm
Monica M. E. Bonaccorso (Social Anthropology)
Narrating the baby: heterosexual and lesbian and gay accounts
of gamete donation
12.30 – 1pm
Zeynep Gürtin-Broadbent (CFR)
‘God’s Will and Doctor’s Orders’: Turkish responses to infertility and
fertility treatments
1 – 2pm
Lunch
SESSION 3 – Chair: Rebecca Fleming (Classics)
2 – 2.30pm
Sophia Connell ( Philosophy)
Ancient theories of reproduction: Aristotle on heredity
2.30 – 3pm
Laurence Totelin (HPS)
Anonymous and pseudonymous midwives in Graeco-Roman
medical works
3 – 3.30 pm
Tea
SESSION 4 – Chair: John Forrester (HPS)
3.30 – 4pm
Véronique Mottier (SPS)
Reproductive sexuality, eugenics and the Swiss ‘dream of order’
4 – 4.30pm
Martin Richards (CFR)
Eugenics California-style in the 1980s: Robert Klark Graham and
his Nobel Germinal Repository
4.30 – 5pm
Tamara Kayali (HPS)
Genetic engineering versus environmental engineering of
children: is there an ethical difference?
Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reproduction
Lent: Friday 2 March 2007
9 – 9.15am
Registration and coffee
9.15 – 9.30am
Welcome and introductions
SESSION 1 – Chair: Richard Smith (Cambridge Group for the History
of Population & Social Structure: Campop)
9.30 – 10am
Catherine Rider (History and HPS)
Reproductive problems and sexual incompatibility in the late
Middle Ages
10 – 10.30am
Thomas Nutt (Campop)
Illegitimate reproduction? Welfare responses to births outside
wedlock in eighteenth and early-nineteenth century England
10.30 – 11am
Eilidh Garrett, Alice Reid and Ros Davies (Campop and Geography)
“...Few and simple pleasures”: a comparison of fertility
behaviour in selected Scottish settings, 1861–1901
11 – 11.30am
Coffee
SESSION 2 – Chair: Martin Richards (CFR)
11.30 – 12noon
Francesca Moore (Geography)
The historical geography of abortion in Lancashire, 1860–1930
12 – 12.30pm
Helen Statham (CFR)
Late abortion for fetal abnormality: law, policy and practice in
the UK
12.30 – 1pm
Hilary Thomas (Centre for Research in Primary and Community Care
& School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Hertfordshire)
Reproductive experiences of women with major illness
1 – 2pm
Lunch
SESSION 3 – Chair: Zeynep Gürtin-Broadbent (CFR)
2 – 2.30pm
Merve Demircioglu (Social Anthropology)
Infertility and new reproductive technologies: a comparison of
Euro-American and Non-Euro-American ethnographic literature
2.30 – 3pm
Françoise Barbira-Freedman (Social Anthropology)
The social impact of the anthropology of childbirth
3 – 3.30 pm
Tea
SESSION 4 – Chair: Nick Hopwood (HPS)
3.30 – 4pm
Jim Secord (HPS)
Embryos and evolution in mid-nineteenth-century Britain
4 – 4.30pm
Salim Al-Gailani (HPS)
The maternal imagination in nineteenth-century medicine
4.30 – 5pm
John Forrester (HPS)
Robert J. Stoller and the invention of gender