R. Alta Charo
Chapter 20. And Baby Makes Three -- Or Four, Five, or Six:
Defining the Family  after the Genetic Revolution
  R. Alta Charo (Harvard College, A.B., Columbia University, J.D.) holds a joint faculty appointment in the Medical and Law Schools at the University of Wisconsin. She is a member of the Program in Medical Ethics and a frequent consultant to federal agencies on a range of issues including: research on embryos; regulation of new reproductive technologies; expansion of international family planning services; biomedical politics; the inclusion of women in clinical research; and the influence of the genome project on reproductive choice. 
Charo served on the National Institutes of Health Human Embryo Research Panel and the National Bioethics Advisory Commission; since 1996 she has been a member of the U.S. National Bioethics Advisory Commission.  She has also served as an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Diplomacy Fellow at the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Links:

Profile of Charo at the University of Wisconsin School of Law.

Profile of Charo for a speech at Presbyterian College's Russell Program (March 31, 2000) -- includes RealAudio recording of her talk.

"It's a Girl," article on sex selection in human reproduction by Kathleen Fackelmann in Science News, November 28, 1998, quoting Charo extensively.

"Cow-Human Cell News Raises Ethical Issues," article by Eugene Russo in The Scientist, December 7, 1998, also quoting Charo at some length.

Transcript of a talk by Charo at "Changing Conceptions:  A Symposium on Reproductive Technologies" at Chicago-Kent College of Law, December 5, 1997.

Charo's forecasts for the 21st century from The Digital Cardinal (University of Wisconsin daily newspaper, December 8, 1999).  Scroll halfway down the page to find her comments.


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