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Women most fully experience the consequences of human reproductive technologies. Men who convene to evaluate such technologies discuss "them": the women who must accept, avoid, or even resist these technologies; the women who consume technologies they did not devise; the women who are the objects of policies made by men. So often the input of women is neither sought nor listened to. The privileged insights and perspectives that women bring to the consideration of technologies in human reproduction are the subject of these volumes, which constitute the revised and edited record of a Workshop on "Ethical Issues in Human Reproduction Technology: Analysis by Women" (EIRTAW), held in June, 1979, at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. Some 80 members of the workshop, 90 percent of them women (from 24 states), represented diverse occupations and personal histories, different races and classes, varied political commitments. They included doctors, nurses, and scientists, lay midwives, consumer advocates, historians, and sociologists, lawyers, policy analysts, and ethicists. Each session, however, made plain that ethics is an everyday concern for women in general, as well as an academic profession for some.
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Michael Gross, geboren 1963, studierte zuerst Chemieingenieurwesen in Karlsruhe, danach Chemie an den Universitäten Marburg und Regensburg. Nach seiner Doktorarbeit in Biochemie war er wissenschaftlich am Oxford Centre for Molecular Science im Bereich der Proteinfaltung in Hinblick auf die Erforschung von Alzheimer und Parkinson tätig. Seit 1993 Wissenschaftsjournalist schrieb er viele deutsch- und englischsprachige Sachbücher (Life on the Edge, Travels to the Nanoworld, Light and Life, Astrobiology). Er arbeitet momentan als "writer in science" am Birkbeck College, London, und schreibt regelmäßig regelmäßig für bekannte Journale und Magazine wie "Chemistry World", "Current Biology", "Chemistry and Industry", "The Independent", "Nature", "New Scientist", "Spektrum der Wissenschaft", "Süddeutsche Zeitung" und viele andere.
