Category Archives: Bioethics

Monday, August 21st

MMCRI’s Responsible Conduct of Research Program: “Emerging ethical issues in CRISPR Genome Editing”

When: 10 a.m. – noon

Where: MMCRI Conference Room 1, 81 Research Drive, Scarborough, Maine 04074

Driving directions can be found here: https://www.google.com/maps/dir//81+Research+Dr,+Scarborough,+ME+04074/@43.6043304,-70.3163225,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m8!4m7!1m0!1m5!1m1!1s0x4cb29f2d859c4b03:0x82df8e8395fe57da!2m2!1d-70.3141338!2d43.6043304 .

Parking is readily available.

In case you missed it and are curious, here’s the PDF presentation.Camporesi CRISPR Embryo Research_MMRCI 08.21.17

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Monday, August 28th

“Gene Enhancement and Gene Doping: The Next Big Threat to the Spirit of Sport?” 

When: 5:30-6:30 pm

Where: Dana Center Room #7, Maine Medical Center, 22 Bramhall Street, Portland, ME  04102.

Driving directions can be found here: https://www.google.com/maps/dir//Maine+Medical+Center,+22+Bramhall+St,+Portland,+ME+04102/@43.6532432,-70.2761836,15z/data=!4m15!1m6!3m5!1s0x0:0x6989275d62158ce0!2sMaine+Medical+Center!8m2!3d43.6532432!4d-70.2761836!4m7!1m0!1m5!1m1!1s0x4cb29c0f43c0b393:0x6989275d62158ce0!2m2!1d-70.2761836!2d43.6532432 .

Best parking:  South Lot at 107 Chadwick Street, Portland is free for Patients and Visitors and located on the corner of Vaughn and Chadwick Streets. Streets around the hospital are generally posted by the City of Portland as one-hour parking zones.

All are welcome!

In case you missed it and are curious, here’s the PDF presentation Silvia Gene Enhancement MMC 08 28 17

Contact for these two seminars:

Leisa Collins, M.Ed., Program Coordinator, Center for Molecular Medicine, Maine Medical Center Research Institute

207-396-8120

lgcollins@mmc.org

In my role as Associate Editor for Reproductive Ethics, I recently wrote this editorial  for the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry. Here’s an excerpt from that article:

‘Human reproduction is increasingly being externalized. We have a number of technologies that make this possible: in vitro fertilization (IVF), preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), gamete donation, surrogacy, and, more recently, mitochondrial transfer technologies and uterus transplant. [..]

This Bioethics and Biopolitics: Presents and Futures of Reproduction symposium draws together a series of articles that were each submitted independently by their authors to the JBI and which explore the biopower axis in the externalization of reproduction in four contexts: artificial gestation (ectogenesis), PGD for sex selection, women’s (reproductive) rights, and testicular cryopreservation (TCCP). While one contribution explores a “future” of reproduction, the other three explore a “present,” or better, explore different “presents.” What may counts as “present,” and what may count as “future,” has dramatically different connotations depending on the geographical declination of the tense’.

The full article was published on June 12th, 2017 and is available open-access here:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11673-017-9787-8

Il mio intervento su “Fiducia pubblica nei saperi esperti in medicina e tecnoscienza” tenuto alla Fondazione Bassetti a Milano il 27 febbraio 2017 e’ online: la registrazione dell’incontro (intervento, e discussione a seguire), comprese le slides e il testo dell’intervento:

http://www.fondazionebassetti.org/it/focus/2017/03/la_fiducia_nei_saperi_esperti.html

Un sentito ringraziamento a Angela Simone, Tommaso Correale, Anna Pellizzone, Francesco Samore’ e il Presidente Piero Bassetti per avermi ospitata!