This seminar will be presented by Professor Rachel Bowlby. 

Over the past few decades, and especially since the invention of IVF, reproductive technologies have featured in many kinds of public and private contestation. Given new scientific possibilities for meddling or enabling, what are the right and wrong ways to bring a new baby into this world? Who is imagined--or imagines themselves--as a likely parent? What kind of parent or parents does a child deserve? With twenty-first-century issues in mind, this lecture looks back at debates in the1940s and 1950s about the social and ethical implications of the first reproductive technology: artificial insemination.

This is a free event and open to all, booking is not required to attend.