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SUMMARY:Making Visible Embryos - Dr Nick Hopwood
DTSTART:20110131T193000Z
DTEND:20110131T203000Z
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CONTACT:Abarna Ramanathan
DESCRIPTION:_Images of human embryos are everywhere. We see them in newspa
 pers\, clinics\, classrooms\, laboratories\, family albums and on the inte
 rnet. Debates about abortion\, assisted conception\, cloning and Darwinism
  have at times made these images hugely controversial\, but they are also 
 routine. We tend to take them for granted. Yet 250 years ago human develop
 ment was still nowhere to be seen. The talk will explore how developing em
 bryos were first drawn and modelled. It will then trace how the resulting 
 pictures and models became the dominant representations of pregnancy and s
 ometimes also of the history of life on earth\, and follow their more rece
 nt incarnations as prominent symbols of biomedical hope and fear. Wherever
  we stand in today’s debates\, it should enrich and may challenge our un
 derstandings to explore how these icons have been made._\n\n*Admission is 
 free and there will a post-talk drinks reception.*
LOCATION:Yusuf Hamied Theatre\, Christ's College
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