Freitag
10
JAN

16.15 Uhr

The Domestic and the Global: Four Decades of Assisted Reproduction in the Asia-Pacific Region

Vera Mackie (University of Wollongong)

It is now four decades since the first babies were born after conception through in vitro fertilisation (IVF) – Louise Brown in the United Kingdom and Kanupriya Agarwal ('Baby Durga') in India in 1978, followed soon after by similar births in Australia, Japan, France and Germany in the early 1980s. Assisted Reproduction is now a global industry, involving the movement of genetic material, embryos, babies, commissioning parents, gestational surrogate mothers, medical practitioners and capital across the globe. In this lecture I explore the ethical dilemmas raised by the global assisted reproduction industry through the stories of some of the babies born through these practices, with a particular focus on the Asia-Pacific region.

Adresse

Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies (CATS)

010.01.05

Voßstraße 2

69115 Heidelberg

Veranstalter

Zentrum für Ostasienwissenschaften

Homepage Veranstalter

https://www.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/