Evie Kendal - Swinburne University of Technology |
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01.02.2017-28.02.2017
Women, ectogenesis and ethical theory - 20 years on
Evie Kendal is a feminist bioethicist and literary critic from Melbourne, Australia. Evie’s research focuses on the representation of ectogenesis and other reproductive biotechnologies in popular culture and the impact this has on public policy and the bioethical debates surrounding these technologies. She is the author of Equal Opportunity and the Case for State Sponsored Ectogenesis (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and “Utopian Visions of ‘Making People’: Science Fiction and Debates on Cloning, Ectogenesis, Genetic Engineering, and Genetic Discrimination” in Patricia Stapleton and Andrew Byers (eds) Biopolitics and Utopia: An Interdisciplinary Reader (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).