Medical Anthropology Student Lecture Series
Date: Mon. December 14th, 2015, 12:15 pm-1:15 pmLocation: School of Medicine - Robbins 430A
The Graduate Discourse in collaboration with student groups in the CWRU School of Medicine will be presenting the second lecture of a three-part lecture series on medical anthropology in practice. The lecture will be held on December 14th from 12:15 – 1:15PM featuring anthropology graduate student Catherine Osborn. The talk is titled “Virtue, Vice, and Contraband: Contraception from Historical and Contemporary Perspectives” and will be located in the School of Medicine, Robbins 430.
The presentation will explore the social and cultural climate influencing birth control decisions in the United States. Regulating fertility is affected by local values of family, access to technologies, and contemporary understandings of reproductive biology. The modern debates regarding contraception regulation are part of a long history of negotiations and struggles over who has the authority to determine and control reproduction.