Ethical Issues in Human Reproductive Technology: Analysis by Women Workshop. Records, 1975-1982
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Historical Note This workshop (known by the acronym EIRTAW), held at Hampshire College on June 24-29, 1979, was the first conference on reproductive technology to focus on women's perceptions of the ethical issues involved. It was funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) through the EVIST (Ethical Issues in Science and Technology) program. Many of the NSF evaluators of the proposal and the program (the majority were male) doubted the legitimacy of this focus on women's opinions, as documented in the file. The principal investigator and co-director of the workshop was Helen B. Holmes, who was on the faculty of Russell Sage College at the time of the proposal. The workshop brought together invited participants from many fields. The proceedings of the workshop were published in two volumes, Birth Control and Controlling Birth (Humana Press, 1980) and The Custom-Made Child? (Humana Press, 1981), which are present in the collection. A follow-up symposium was held in January 1980 at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Scope and Contents of the Collection The files consist of grant proposals, correspondence and working files for the workshop, transcripts and edited versions of the papers presented, correspondence relating to the published proceedings, cassette tapes of the workshop, and material relating to the AAAS symposium. The meticulous arrangement of the files was maintained during processing, including the section headings indicated in capital letters in the Contents List. The sections are in chronological order, further divided by subject or correspondent in alphabetical order.
Human reproductive technology--Moral and ethical aspects.
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Holmes, Helen B.
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PRE-PROPOSAL
Hastings Center Workshop, 1975 (inspiring the grant proposal)
Callahan, Daniel. Correspondence, 1975-77
Responses to Aug. 1975 notice in Hastings Center Report
Early grant assistance and professional associations
PROPOSAL
Preliminary proposal, Sept. 1977
Proposal rejected, Apr. 1978
Proposal, Aug. 1978, accepted
Budget revisions, 1978
Blanpied, William (NSF grant assistance)
Kutter, Elizabeth (NSF rep and active discussant)
Hastings Center consultation, Jan. 8, 1979
Quarterly Reports, First (Mar. 1, 1979) through Sixth (May 30, 1980)
Final Grant Report, Mar. 31, 1981
Ford Foundation
ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Advisory committee, 1978-79
Cassidy, Marie M.
Gross, Michael
Hoskins, Betty
Major, Gerene
Ramaley, Judith (co-director)
Raymond, Janice (co-director)
Swenson, Norma
Whitbeck, Caroline
PARTICIPANTS
Participants - Recruitment
Participants - Biographies and analysis
Participants - Mailings and payroll
Participants, A-W (Correspondence with individuals)
Observers
Rejected
PROGRAM
Program
Childbirth
Contraceptives
Depo-provera and sterilization abuse
DES (diethylstilbesterol)
Manipulative reproductive technologies
Neonate
Policy-making and projections
Prenatal diagnosis
Sex preselection
Resolutions, June 29, 1979
Conference notebook for participants
WORKSHOP AS EVENT
Budget
Conference arrangements, Hampshire College
Goals
Photographs
Press clippings
Press releases
EVALUATORS
Evaluation committee and Report, 1979-80
Individual evaluators - correspondence
AAAS
AAAS Symposium, 1980 and book rejection
BOOKS
Publications subcommittee
Publishers rejections and offers rejected
Humana Press - contract and correspondence
NSF permission to publish
Editing
Marketing
Reviews
Testimonial requests
Birth Control and Controlling Birth: Women-Centered Perspectives. Ed. by Helen B. Holmes, Betty B. Hoskins and Michael Gross. Clifton, NJ: Humana Press, 1980
The Custom-Made Child?: Women-Centered Perspectives. Ed. by Helen B. Holmes, Betty B. Hoskins and Michael Gross. Clifton, NJ: Humana Press, 1981.
Index to EIRTAW cassette tapes
Audiocassette tapes of EIRTAW Workshop proceedings. 24 cassettes
Published cassettes of AAAS Symposium: Human Reproduction Technology Ethics, Jan. 3-8, 1980. 2 cassettes
T-Shirt for EIRTAW