[Hamp-law] Screening: A Healthy Baby Girl

[Jennifer Hamilton]

Please join Hampshire Professor Jennifer Hamilton for a screening and 
discussion of Judith Helfand's powerful documentary, "A Healthy Baby Girl."

 From the filmmaker's website: "A Healthy Baby Girl is an intimate, 
humorous, yet searing exploration of what happens when science, 
marketing, and corporate power enter our deepest family relationships. A 
Healthy Baby Girl is an inter-generational story of one family's 
response to an ethical and technological crisis, experienced from their 
home in Merrick, Long Island.

In 1963, filmmaker Judith Helfand's mother was prescribed the drug 
diethylstilbestrol (DES), meant to prevent miscarriage and ensure a 
healthy baby. But technology is rarely a benign midwife. In 1990, at age 
twenty-five, Helfand was diagnosed with DES-related cervical cancer. She 
went home to her family to heal from a radical hysterectomy. There she 
picked up her camera. Her video diary, A Healthy Baby Girl, was shot 
over five years and goes beyond loss to document mother-daughter love, 
family renewal, survival, political awakening, and community activism."

This event is on Thursday, October 23rd, 2008.
It is held at : UMass, Herter 227
This event starts at 7:30pm.

This event is organized by : Department of History, UMass Amherst — 
Feinberg Lecture Series

For more information visit 
http://blogs.umass.edu/thevalue/category/thursday-film-series/ or E-mail 
jhamilton at hampshire.edu <mailto:jhamilton at hampshire.edu>

-- 
Dr. Jennifer A. Hamilton
Assistant Professor of Legal Studies
School of Social Science
Hampshire College
Franklin Patterson Hall 208
893 West Street
Amherst, MA 01002

(413) 559-5578 (o)
(413) 559-5620 (f)
jhamilton at hampshire.edu
http://www.hampshire.edu/ss/7410.htm