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SUMMARY:Lets Talk About Sex (and Reproduction): Counselling for Reproducti
 ve Health in Post-war Europe (12-13 December) - Speaker to be confirmed
DTSTART:20191212T090000Z
DTEND:20191212T170000Z
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CONTACT:Speaker to be confirmed
DESCRIPTION:Today\, counsellors in reproductive health help patients and p
 arents make reproductive decisions\, interpret the results of genetic test
 s\, make decisions about treatment and birth control\, and understand sexu
 al difficulties. Counselling encounters are potentially highly emotional 
 — provoking guilt\, fear\, confusion\, relief and joy — and can powerf
 ully impact individuals\, families\, extended families and communities. Th
 ey also have rich and varied histories. In post-war Europe\, counselling a
 nd communication practices in reproductive health have driven and been sha
 ped by the ‘liberalisation’ of sexuality\, the psychological turn\, et
 hical and legal debates about reproductive autonomy and disability\, disco
 urses about race\, gender and medicine\, a growing need for patients to ma
 nage risks\, and new definitions of responsible citizens and patients.\n\n
 This two-day interdisciplinary conference will bring together historians\,
  sociologists and current professionals to discuss how counselling has cha
 nged\, how its practices have shaped reproductive health and what its hist
 ories can tell us about practices today. In bringing together scholars and
  practitioners we focus on three principal fields: sexual and birth-contro
 l counselling\, infertility counselling and genetic counselling. Focusing 
 on Europe—historically a centre for new reproductive technologies—part
 icipants will chart and compare the histories and present-day practices of
  these rich medical encounters. \n\nThematically\, the conference has four
  aims:\n\nTo recover the changing (and gendered)  experiences of reproduct
 ive and sexual medicine\, by patients and practitioners\nTo explore the ro
 le of ‘emotion’ in counselling\, to recover how emotions have been und
 erstood according to class\, gender and race\, and how have counsellors be
 en taught to discipline their own emotions\n\nTo understand changing strat
 egies for managing risk and responsibility\, and how these have differed a
 cross political contexts\nTo explore how counselling is being refashioned 
 today\, in light of new reproductive technologies and genomic medicine. 
LOCATION:Rooms SG1 & SG2\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambrid
 ge\, CB3 9DT
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