Margaret Battin Distinguished Professor - University of Utah |
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02.09.2016-29.09.2016
Sex and Consequences: Reversing the Default in Human Reproduction
Margaret Pabst Battin, known as Peggy, is Professor of Philosophy and Medical Ethics at the University of Utah. A graduate of Bryn Mawr College and with an MFS in Fiction Writing and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of California/Irvine, she is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of more than twenty books, including works on ethical issues in death and dying, suicide, infectious disease, drugs and justice, reproduction, and many other issues. Her project at Brocher is the completion of a new book, provisionally titled Sex & Consequences: Long-Acting Reversible Contraception and the Reproductive Problems of the Globe. It is built around a single thought-experiment to explore issues about teen pregnancy; abortion; pregnancy following rape, mass rape, and sexual violence; pregnancy in maternal chronic illness, drug use, and environmental exposure; and global population growth and decline; it also explores male contraception and religious objections to contraception. It is particularly concerned with reproductive rights of both females and males, and is particularly dedicated to ferreting out the unchallenged assumptions in our thinking about reproduction.