CRITIQUE-PTRG Seminar Environmental Ethics and Medical Reproduction – 1 March 2023, 3-4:30 pm

Join us for a CRITIQUE-PTRG seminar with Cristina Richie: “Environmental Ethics and Medical Reproduction”.

The carbon emissions of global health care activities make up 4-5% of total world emissions, placing the health care industry on par with the food sector. Safe amounts of carbon in the atmosphere have been exceeded—in part because of medical lifestyles, including the use of technology in health care, including the facilitation of human reproduction. Medicalized reproduction (MR) is a phrase to summarize the intervention of technology into human reproduction, from pre-conception gamete retrieval, to in-vitro fertilization (IVF), to birthing suites. It is broader than assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) and includes any form of human reproduction that relies on medical resources. MR is, very often, a lifestyle procedure that is given to meet a reproductive project and caters to the fertile and infertile. Technology has fundamentally changed the discussion on biomedical ethics, climate ethics, and reproductive ethics. This talk considers how.

Presenter: Cristina Richie, PhD, Lecturer, Philosophy and Ethics of Technology, Delft University of Technology (NL).

Venue: 18 Buccleuch Place, room 3.15 (access with U of E card).