Event: In Utero: Imaging and Imagining (MA)

In Utero: Imaging and Imagining

Starts: Thursday, March 06, 2003
Ends: Thursday, March 06, 2003
Location: South Hadley, Massachusetts, USA

A panel discussion, "In Utero: Imaging and Imagining," will address artistic, scientific and political considerations in visual depictions of human embryos and fetuses on March 6, 2003, 7:30 PM at Mount Holyoke College.

Anthropology professor Lynn M. Morgan will moderate. Panelists are: Bradley Richard Smith, a leading authority on multiple applications of MRI technology in medicine and science; Scott F. Gilbert, who teaches developmental genetics, embryology and the history of biology; and Rosamond Wolff Purcell, who is a photographer and writer whose recent work includes Special Cases: Natural Anomalies and Historical Monsters.

The discussion is part of a series of events this spring on the theme of "The Political Embryo: Reconceiving Human Reproduction." The talks are being presented by Mount Holyoke College's Harriet L. and Paul M. Weissman Center for Leadership.

In addition to a wide-ranging discussion of cloning, the series will look at the ethical and legal issues surrounding new and developing human reproductive technologies, and how visual representations and the media influence our views of human reproduction as it intersects with technology.

For more information, please visit http://www.mtholyoke.../spring03.shtml