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SUMMARY:Moral Challenges of New Reproductive Technologies - Prof. Eve-Mari
 e Engels (University of Tübingen) and Prof. Martin Richards (Psychology\,
  University of Cambridge) 
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CONTACT:Gabriela Pavarini
DESCRIPTION:*Prof. Eve-Marie Engels: In Vitro Fertilization and its Long-T
 erm Challenges*\n\nFor many people the primary purpose of the introduction
  of IVF was to alleviate infertility by assisted conception and to help co
 uples to become parents. However\, after its successful introduction IVF p
 rovided a range of further options\, like preimplantation genetic diagnosi
 s\, embryonic stem cell research\, and “social freezing”\, the freezin
 g of young women’s eggs with the option of thawing them for fertilisatio
 n in later life under more appropriate circumstances. All these techniques
  are bound up with a variety of ethical and social problems which have to 
 be addressed. \n\n*Prof. Martin Richards: Ethical challenges in the use of
  reproductive donation*\n\nThe prime ethical issues in collaborative repro
 duction involving the use of donor insemination concern the relationships 
 of the child with the intending parents and the donor. The historical deve
 lopment of arguments about the status of sperm donor offspring will be out
 lined and I will discuss contemporary ethical challenges in the use of don
 or sperm.\n\n*About the Speakers:*\n\n\n_Professor Eve-Marie Engels_\n\nPr
 ofessor Eve-Marie Engels studied philosophy and biology in Bochum\, German
 y\, where she also received her PhD. The topic of her doctoral dissertatio
 n was the problem of teleology in the philosophy of science\, and she spec
 ialised in evolutionary epistemology. She held positions in Germany and th
 e USA before taking on the first German chair for bioethics in Tübingen i
 n 1996. She has published numerous articles and books on topics ranging fr
 om philosophy of science to applied ethics to Charles Darwin. She has been
  a member of the International Centre for Ethics in the Sciences and Human
 ities which investigates the question of responsibility and applied ethics
  from an interdisciplinary perspective. Prof Engels has also held various 
 advisory positions for policy-makers such as memberships of the German Eth
 ics Council (2001-2007) and the scientific advisory board of the Federal O
 ffice for Agriculture and Food (since 2014).\n\n_Professor Martin Richards
 _\n\nProfessor Martin Richards gained his PhD in Zoology at Cambridge\, on
  maternal behaviour in the golden hamster. During his postdoctoral work at
  Harvard and Princeton\, Prof Richards’ interests shifted towards matern
 al behaviour in our own species\, and he returned to Cambridge to found wh
 at was to become the Centre for Family Research. Since his retirement from
  the Directorship of the Centre in 2005\, he has continued a prolific and 
 diverse research programme focussing on family life\, on the meaning of 
 ‘genetic connection’ in the context of alternative reproductive techno
 logies\, and most recently on the ethical issues surrounding research part
 icipation. In 2013 Prof Richards was invited to chair a Working Party at t
 he Nuffield Council on Bioethics on 'Collecting\, linking\, use and exploi
 tation of biological and health data: ethical issues'. He is Vice Chair of
  the UK Biobank Ethics and Governance Council and has previously served si
 x years as a member of the Ethics and Law Committee of the Human Fertiliza
 tion and Embryology Authority. Currently\, Prof Richards is preparing the 
 third in a three-part series of edited volumes on alternative reproductive
  technologies\, entitled 'Regulating Reproductive Donation'.\n\n\n\n
LOCATION:Room SG1 (Ground Floor)\, Alison Richard Building (CRASSH)\, 7 We
 st Road
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