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SUMMARY:Debating reproduction: IVF - Chair Dr Nick Hopwood (History and Ph
 ilosophy of Science\, Cambridge)\, Professor Peter Braude (Women’s Healt
 h\, King’s College and Guy’s Hospital\, London) Professor Sarah Frankl
 in (Sociology\, London School of Economics) Professor Martin H. Johnson (R
 e
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DESCRIPTION:In association with the 'Books and Babies' exhibition at the C
 ambridge University Library\, the Wellcome Trust funded Generation to Repr
 oduction project presents a debate on the history of scientific and ethica
 l issues surrounding in vitro fertilisation. \nA panel of experts will giv
 e short introductions before opening up to the floor for discussion and fi
 nishing with a vote. \n\nIn order to focus on historical perspectives\, th
 e debate question will be framed around the UK Medical Research Council’
 s refusal to fund a five-year grant application to support IVF research th
 at was submitted to it in 1971 by Robert Edwards and Patrick Steptoe. A co
 py of a research paper on this MRC decision can be down loaded free of cha
 rge at:\nhttp://humrep.oxfordjournals.org/content/25/9/2157.abstract?sid=a
 5077e19-c16d-481e-aca3-5a648316490f\n\nThe subject of the debate will be:\
 n\n‘If I had been on the MRC Committee in 1971\, would I have funded IVF
  research?’\n\nPanellists will include:\nProfessor Peter Braude (Women
 ’s Health\, King’s College and Guy’s Hospital\, London) Professor Sa
 rah Franklin (Sociology\, London School of Economics) Professor Martin H. 
 Johnson (Reproductive Sciences\, Physiology\, Development and Neuroscience
 \, Cambridge) \n\nChair: \nDr Nick Hopwood (History and Philosophy of Scie
 nce\, Cambridge)
LOCATION:Cambridge Univeristy Library\, West Road
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