Ethical Issues in Nursing Research: Events in 1980
Abstract
427 departmentsEthical Issues in Nursing Research: Events in 1980 SAGE Publications, Inc.1980DOI: 10.1177/019394598000200116 Anne J. Davis Numerous important and interesting events occurred during last summer. Although there is the problem of a time lag, three of these events deserve mentioning here. First, in late June, at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, the Federation of Organization for Professional Women (based in Washington, D.C.) sponsored a conference funded by the National Science Foundation. This conference, "Ethical Issues in Human Reproduction Technology: Analysis by Women," invited selected women and some few men for a total of 50 participants from diverse backgrounds, representing many disciplines and points of view ranging from traditional establishment to radical feminism. The dialogue was lively and informative. The goal of the conference was to explore the effects of introducing more direct input by women into public and policy debates on reproductive technology. Topics included "contraceptives, abortion technologies, prenatal diagnosis, prenatal therapy, drugs and pregnancy, childbirth technologies, the handicapped neonate, sex preselection, cloning, and blastocyst implantation." All participants were actively involved in the discussion on each topic and joined a specific sub-group as a panel member. I participated in the Diethylstilbestrol (DES) panel. We examined DES as a