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Genetic impact on
women discussion
BEHRRND-Dr. Ruth
Hubbard, professor of biology
merits at Harvard University,
will speak on "Implications of
the New Genetic Technologies
for Women" at Penn State Erie,
The Behrend College, on
Thursday, April 4 at 7 p.m. The
lecture, to be held in the Reed
Union Building Lecture Hall, is
free and open to the public.
A true pioneer in the field of
genetics, Hubbard has challenged
the thinking of genetic
researchers in terms of how their
work affects women. Since the
early 1970'5, she has worked,
written, and lectured on the
politics of health care and on
various health issues, especially
as they relate to women.
Another major focus of her
interest has been in the sociology
of science, where she has tried to
document the ways in which the
question scientists ask and the
answers they accept as true are
shaped by their sex, race, and
class, and by the social
institutions in which they
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The researcher has edited five
books including The Politics of
Women's Biology (New
Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers
University Press, 1990);
Exploding the Gene Myth
(Boston: Beacon Press, 1993);
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Among the topics Hubbard
will discuss at Penn State-
Behrend are the many issues
surrounding prenatal testing. She
believes individuals need to have
a greater voice in science, and
urges education at the grassroots
level to help women decide
whether or not medical and
genetic testing is appropriate for
them. "With genetic testing,
women are supposed to have
more choices," she says, "but in
fact they are making forced
choices." She points to the
growing number of pregnant
women over age 35 who feel
obliged to undergo
amniocentesis.
Hubbard will also look at
breast cancer and breast cancer
screening. "As tests to predict a
women's potential for breast
cancer come on the market, we
need to look at it very carefully,"
she warns. "When we talk about
any kind of cancer, we can't focus
strictly on genes. We need to
look at all the factors involved,
such as environment, as well."
Hubbard has also contributed to
the understanding of biochemistry
and photochemistry of vision in
vertebrates and invertebrates, a
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field in which she has published
many scientific papers and review
articles
She appears as part of the
Feminist Scholar Speaker Series
sponsored by Penn State Equal
Opportunity Planning
Committee and co-sponsored by
the Penn State-Behrend Division
of Humanities and Social
Sciences, the Division of
Science, and Psi Chi, the
national psychology honorary
society.
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