Arden Hegele and Rishi Goyal published in “Journal of Medicine Ethics”
June 11, 2026 – Achievements
Congratulations to Arden Hegele (ICLS Affiliate Faculty/Medical Humanities Advisory Board Member) and Rishi Goyal (Director of Medical Humanities) for their recently published article: Conception and Its Discontents in the Journal of Medicine Ethics (June 2026 issue).
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This Special Issue explores the pressures and deformations that burgeoning technologies and contemporary political and cultural norms place on the experience and meaning of reproduction. Drawn from the research of the Motherhood and Technology Working Group at Columbia University, the articles focus on the manifold technologies, broadly understood, that structure the period spanning pre-conception to the end of the first trimester—from contraception and abortion to cryogenics, genetic and ultrasonographic testing, and gestational surrogacy.
