RU 486: Misconceptions, Myths and Morals

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Renate Klein PhD was Associate Professor in Womens Studies at Deakin University Melbourne until her retirement in 2006 and is the (co)author/(co)editor of 14 books. She is a biologist and social scientist and taught courses on Reproductive Medicine and Feminist Ethics. Since the 1980s she has conducted critical feminist research into the new and old reproductive technologies including international population control IVF (fertility drugs) hormonal and immunological contraceptives surrogacy RU 486 and Gardasil. Janice G. Raymond PhD is Professor Emerita of Women's Studies and Medical Ethics at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and was Associate Director of the Institute on Women and Technology at MIT. She was also the Co-Executive Director of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW). She has written extensively on new reproductive technologies prostitution and trafficking. Her latest book is Not a Choice Not a Job: Exposing the Myths about Prostitution and the Global Sex Trade (Potomac Virginia USA/Spinifex Press Melbourne 2013). Lynette J. Dumble PhD was the Senior Research Fellow in the University of Melbournes Department of Surgery at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and Visiting Professor of Surgery at the University of Texas Houston USA. She has published extensively in medical and scientific journals in the areas of transplantation immunosuppression (including prostaglandins) and Medical Ethics. Since 1997 she has directed the Global Sisterhood Network. Her latest book is The Social & Political Economies of Femicide in Andhra Pradesh (with Rukmini V. Rao Gramya Resource Centre for Women Tarnaka India 2012).