The Body and the State - Session Three | The New School for Social Research

Here is session three in The New School for Social Research series on The Body and the State: WHO HAS RIGHTS TO THE BODY?

The Body and the State - Session Three - Part 1
WHO HAS RIGHTS TO THE BODY?

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The struggle over control of the body is fierce and sometimes violent, including questions about the beginning, sustaining, and ending of life to ways in which the state and quasi-state agencies can take possession of the body. How do these debates play out in public policy? How do rights—individual human rights and state-granted rights—factor into these struggles? How do these struggles and debates differ between cultures and legal systems?

Moderator: Ann Snitow, Associate Professor, Literature and Gender Studies, Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts

REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS
What factors influence laws governing abortion and reproductive technologies? How does policy vary in different states and cultures?

Regulating the Reproductive Body in China
• Susan Greenhalgh, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine

Reproductive Entanglements: Assistive Reproductive Technologies as Optics for Viewing the Regulation of Child-Bearing
• Rayna Rapp, Professor of Anthropology, New York University

SUSTAINING AND ENDING LIFE
Who has access to health care? When is ending life justified?

Irony Awaits: Neuroscience, Consciousness, and the Right to Die
• Joseph Fins, M.D., E. William Davis, Jr. M.D. Professor of Medical Ethics; Chief, Division of Medical Ethics; Professor of Medicine, Public Health, and Medicine in Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College

Healthcare Reform 2.0
• Steffie Woolhandler, M.D., M.P.H., Professor of Public Health, CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College

The Body and the State - Session Three - Part 2
WHO HAS RIGHTS TO THE BODY?

Moderator: Ann Snitow, Associate Professor, Literature and Gender Studies, Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts

POSSESSION AND PUNISHMENT OF THE BODY
Under what conditions does the state take possession of the body or tacitly sanction another's taking ownership of an individual's body e.g. military service (both voluntary and forced), quasi-state terrorist organizations, slavery, and imprisonment? How are systems of detention and punishment used to govern both citizens and noncitizens? What forces are at play when the state employs the calculated application of pain or capital punishment?

Torture and Dream of Reason
• Paul W. Kahn, Robert W. Winner Professor of Law and the Humanities and Director, Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights, Yale Law School

The Problem of the Body in Modern State Punishment
• David Garland, Professor of Sociology, New York University School of Law

THE DEAD BODY
The Deep Time of the Dead
• Thomas Walter Laqueur, Helen Fawcett Professor of History, University of California

Appearing and Disappearing Bodies (Mexico 2010)
• Claudio Lomnitz, Director, Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, Professor, Columbia University

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