Current policy shifts and proposed legislative changes are leading to weaker drug, device and food safety regulation. This affects all Canadians, but has particular implications for women. Print Poster Fetal Surgery as a Women s Health Issue Presenter Monica J.Casper, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Santa Cruz Monica J. Casper is a medical sociologist and ethicist specializing in women s health and environmental health issues. Join us to hear Monica J. Casper present her book The Making of the Unborn Patient . Firmly situating fetal surgery as a women s health issue, Casper illustrates how fetal surgery both inside and outside the operating room has contributed to new notions of fetuses, women, pregnancy and medicine itself.
Fetal surgery is a social and political practice with significant consequences for women s health.
She raises ethical and political questions about access to medical intervention, the scope of reproductive politics, and notions of maternal sacrifice. Join us to hear Marilyn Harris talk about the work she has been doing in Australia at the Queensland University of Technology on a collaborative approach to a training framework on domestic violence. Marilyn will also discuss the role and functions of Brisbane s Domestic Violence Resource Centre Inc., a training and resource centre for crisis and anti-violence workers. The centre also advocates and provides counselling for survivors and victims of domestic violence. How First Nations women perceive and respond to health services today reflects the consequences of a century of power politics in which decision making, policy development and service delivery have remained in the hands of dominant society.