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Creating Humans: Ethical Questions Where Reproduction and Science Collide (Modern Scholar)
Creating Humans Ethical Questions Where Reproduction and Science Collide - Modern Scholar Author:Alexander McCall Smith Professor Smith delivers lectures on the moral aspects of human reproduction from methods of conception to methods of terminating pregnancies. He discusses the moral, cultural, legal, and political influences on reproduction as well as the scientific advances in reproductive technology. Contents: Lecture 1. An overview of the techniques f... more »or creating humans --
Lecture 2. When does life begin? The human embryo --
Lecture 3. What sort of children shall we have? The science of reproduction --
Lecture 4. Cloning, I want them to take after me --
Lecture 5. A boy please, sex selection --
Lecture 6. Abortion? --
Lecture 7. Who's my mother? Who's my father? Surrogacy --
Lecture 8. A sorting vat for babies, screening for abnormalities --
Lecture 9. Superboy and Wondergirl, genetic enhancement --
Lecture 10. Spare-part children --
Lecture 11. The right to reproduce --
Lecture 12. Life-boat ethics, population control --
Lecture 13. Hard choices, ethics in intensive care --
Lecture 14, Science as a father. 7 sound cassettes + 1 course guide 96 p.« less