DFG-Research Project: "Property in the human body in the context of transnational economies of reproduction", part of the Cooperative Research Area Structural Change of Property, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena and University of Erfurt
Principal Investigators: PD Dr. Susanne Lettow (FU Berlin), PD Dr. Stefanie Graefe, (FSU Jena)
Research Associates: Abibi Stewart (FU Berlin), Irina Herb (FSU Jena),
Student Assistant: Franziska Wohlfarth (FU Berlin)
Besides reshaping human generativity, reproductive technologies such as IVF, egg donation and surrogacy give rise to whole new value creation systems and forms of ownership of the human body. The project is designed as a philosophical and sociological dual project with the aim of exploring discursive, institutional and subjective processes of doing property in transnational economies of reproduction. It focuses, on the one hand, on bioethical problems surrounding ownership of the human body and, on the other hand, on patterns of interpretation and practices employed by various players in the context of the transnational propertisation of human ova in Germany and Spain.
Completed Projects
DFG research project “Origin and Belonging. Concepts of Reproduction, Descent and Kinship in Natural Philosophies after Kant/Genealogy and Belonging: Concepts of Reproduction, Descent and Kinship in Post-Kantian Naturphilosophie”
Project leader: PD Dr. Susanne Lettow
Research associate: Gregory Rupik
FWF research project: “The symbolic power of biology. Philosophical Articulations of Biological Knowledge around 1800/The Symbolic Power of Biology. Philosophical Articulations of Biological Knowledge Around 1800” (individual project)
Principal Investigator: PD Dr. Susanne Lettow