Sarah Franklin, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge

This talk looks both forward and back at what is meant by the phrase 'reproductive technology' and examines how 'new reproductive technologies' might be related to older technologies of kinship, gender, sex. Examining in particular the transformation of the human embryo into a tool, and the wider technologization of reproductive substance at the IVF-stem cell interface, this talk explores the changing relationship between the biological and the technical in contemporary bioscience.

Cosponsored by the department of Social Studies of Medicine, the Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies (IGSF) and the Situating Science cluster.