Women's Health Speakers Series Event:
Fetal Surgery as a Women’s Health Issue

Join us to hear Monica J. Casper present her book The Making of the Unborn Patient.
Firmly situating fetal surgery as a women’s health issue, Casper illustrates how
fetal surgery-both inside and outside the operating room-has contributed to new
notions
of fetuses, women, pregnancy and medicine itself.  Fetal surgery is a social and
political practice with significant consequences for women’s health.  She raises
ethical and political questions about access to medical intervention, the scope of
reproductive politics, and notions of maternal sacrifice.

Guest Speaker:
Monica J.Casper, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Sociology
University of California, Santa Cruz

Monica J. Casper is a medical sociologist and ethicist specializing in women’s health
and environmental health issues.

When:
Thursday, June 15, 2000
3:00 - 5:00 p.m. (Free Admission)

Where:
BC Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health
E311 (3rd floor) at BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre, 4500 Oak Street (gate 3
entrance at Heather St. and 29th Ave), Vancouver, BC

Refreshments served.  Lower mainland transit subsidies and services for persons with
disabilities available with 2 days advance request.

Please reserve a seat by calling 604.875.2484.

Women’s Health Speaker Series 2000
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