The University Research Priority Program "Human Reproduction Reloaded" | H2R cordially invites you to the brown bag lunch talk "Reproducing Privacy". The talk will be given by Prof. Judit Sándor, director of the Center for Ethics and Law in Biomedicine at Central European University in Vienna and visiting professor at the University of Zurich. It will take place in English on 6 December 2021 from 12.15 to 1.30 pm. The event will be chaired by Prof Florent Thouvenin.
If you want to participate online please contact Elena Brodeala: elena.brodeala@uzh.ch.
Abstract "Reproducing Privacy"
The modern legal concept of right to privacy was born at the end of the nineteenth century and it became a generally accepted right that can be applied to diverse domains. Since the turn of the millennium the effectiveness of the legal instrument of privacy has been challenged not only by the widespread emergence of surveillance techniques and biopolitical monitoring, both reinforced by governmental management of the Covid-19 pandemic, but also by genetic interventions and by new reproductive technologies. This lecture will discuss how ensuing fragmentation of personhood and human body requires a reinterpretation of the concept of privacy in the field of health care and biotechnology.