New Assisted Reproduction Technologies but Old Ethical Problems: Can we resolve new technology challenges with old rules?

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Title: New Assisted Reproduction Technologies but Old Ethical Problems: Can we resolve new technology challenges with old rules?

Date: 16 August, 2023 (Wednesday)
Time: 12:45 – 1:45 pm
Venue: SR4, Room 403, 4/F, 3 Sassoon Road
Mode: In-person

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Abstract:
Sometimes the nature of new technology and its capabilities challenge our underlying ethical frameworks and, if we are open to it, may help us modify those frameworks to better protect the vulnerable and uphold our values. In this lecture, we will explore a few special examples of relatively new reproduction technologies – CRISPR for the purpose of germline modification, post-mortem harvesting of germline material, germline material indefinite freezing and others, and ask if our current ethical frameworks are sufficient to support their use. This lecture is intended to be informational and conversational.

Speaker:
Dr Barbra Bluestone Rothschild
Lecturer, Bioethics MS Program, Columbia University

Speaker’s Bio
Barbra Rothschild, MD is an internist specializing in medical ethics. She has expertise in human subjects’ research ethics and community engagement with underserved populations in health issues, specifically genetics. She conducted an investigation of the nature of consent for innovative maternal fetal surgery with support of the Greenwall Foundation. She has done research in gene transfer research ethics regarding both intellectual property and consent forms with support of the NIH through NHGRI’s ELSI program. Currently her teaching highlights clinical ethics, health care economics as it relates to US practitioners, and the intersection of behavioral economics and health care. She serves as a core faculty member at Columbia University Masters in Bioethics program overseeing theses and curriculum and she serves on several DSMBs. She developed and implemented an ethics curriculum for the medical school at Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her paper interests are currently the long term ethics of CRISPR technology, ethics education in Southeast Asia, and American football and ethics.

Moderator:
Dr Zohar Lederman
Post-doctoral Fellow, Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit, SClinMed

Welcome to join us!

Enquiry: Please contact Ms May Fung (mehu@hku.hk).