Uniting the nation? disability, stem cells, and the australian media

Goggin, Gerard; Newell, Christopher

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“…Accordingly Christopher's contributions to bioethics range across topics as diverse as genetics (Newell 1992(Newell , 1999a(Newell , 2007b; biotechology (Goggin and Newell 2004); care (Wareing and Newell 2005); quality and consumers (Newell 2000); euthanasia (Parsons and Newell 1996;Newell 1996Newell , 2008a; the polity and disability (Newell 2008b); media Newell 2004, 2005b); and spirituality, theology, and ethics (Newell 2002a;Newell and Calder 2004;Newman and Newell 2007); and the ethics of research (Newell 1997).…”

Section: Speaking and Listeningmentioning

confidence: 98%

Bioethics, Disability, and the Good Life: Remembering Christopher Newell, 1964–2008

Goggin

2008

Bioethical Inquiry

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The untimely passing of Reverend Canon Dr Christopher Newell, AM, came as a shock to many in the bioethics world. As well as an obituary, this article notes a number of important themes in his work, and provides a select bibliography. Christopher's major contribution to this field is that he was one of a handful of scholars who made disability not only an acceptable area of bioethics-indeed a vital, central, fertile area of enquiry. Crucially Christopher emphasised that where we do ethics is actually in everyday lifewhile we mourn his passing, his rich work and example will continue to inspire bioethical inquiry. made a contribution of enormous significance to bioethical inquiry. Prolific, passionate, tireless, and always generous, Christopher was able to draw upon his great learning from across many academic disciplines -geography, philosophy, theology, health, disability, communications, science and technology studies, future studies, pastoral care, nursing -as well as his deep wisdom from the difficult and joyous experience of a life fully lived, and keenly examined.Christopher was educated at Church of England Grammar School, East Brisbane, but found it difficult to gain entry to university. Rather than being admitted to the University of Tasmania, where he eventually worked, he commenced his undergraduate studies at the then Tasmanian State Institute of Technology (which became part of the University in 1991). Christopher earned a Master of Arts (Hons) from the University of Wollongong, in the program in Technology and Social Change with the Department of Science and Technology Studies. He wrote a pioneering thesis on Australian telecommunications and disabled people, graduating in 1989. Christopher continued his work in science and technology studies, with his doctoral thesis at Deakin University entitled The social construction of the wheelchair and cochlear implant: A study of the definition and regulation of disability (1994). It was in this period especially that he deepened his research into bioethics; health and welfare; medical and rehabilitation technology; and the history and politics of disability.

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Section: Speaking and Listeningmentioning

confidence: 98%

Bioethics, Disability, and the Good Life: Remembering Christopher Newell, 1964–2008

Goggin

2008

Bioethical Inquiry

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“…However, a central and yet marginal aspect of the debate to do with stem cells has been the status of disability. I have written elsewhere, with Gerard Goggin, in depth the 2002 Australian Embryonic Stem Cell debate (Goggin & Newell, 2004).…”

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Disability, Bioethics, and Rejected Knowledge

Newell

2006

The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy

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In this article I explore disability as far more than individual private tragedy, suggesting it has a social location and reproduction. Within this context we look at the power relations associated with bioethics and its largely uncritical use of the biomedical model. Within that context the topics of genetics, euthanasia, and biotechnology are explored. In examining these topics a social account of disability is proposed as rejected knowledge. Accordingly we explore the political nature of bioethics as a project.

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“…Disability, Stem Cells, and the Australian Media," Gerard Goggin and Christopher Newell assume a version of this conception in order to examine the media representation of disability in recent Australian debates regarding stem cells [13]. For Goggin and Newell, disability is a cultural and political category and space, a dynamic entity produced by social relations which operates as a structuring cluster of concepts, figures and structures in discourses [13: 47].…”

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Stemming the Tide of Normalisation: An Expanded Feminist Analysis of the Ethics and Social Impact of Embryonic Stem Cell Research

Tremain

2006

Bioethical Inquiry

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Feminists have indicated the inadequacies of bioethical debates about human embryonic stem cell research, which have for the most part revolved around concerns about the moral status of the human embryo. Feminists have argued, for instance, that inquiry concerning the ethics and politics of human embryonic stem cell research should consider the relations of social power in which the research is embedded. My argument is that this feminist work on stem cells is itself inadequate, however, insofar as it has not incorporated an analysis of disability into its considerations of the ethical and political issues that surround the phenomena. Thus, I consider claims that disability theorists and anti-disability activists have made about the research. I conclude by indicating that stem cell research must be situated within a cultural matrix that operates in the service of normalisation.

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Uniting the nation? disability, stem cells, and the australian media

Cited by 35 publications

References 16 publications

Bioethics, Disability, and the Good Life: Remembering Christopher Newell, 1964–2008

Bioethics, Disability, and the Good Life: Remembering Christopher Newell, 1964–2008

Disability, Bioethics, and Rejected Knowledge

Stemming the Tide of Normalisation: An Expanded Feminist Analysis of the Ethics and Social Impact of Embryonic Stem Cell Research

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