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  1. Designer Babies and Gene Robbery (2011)

    Director
    Bertram Verhaag; Gabriele Kröber
    Subject
    Biology; Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £50.00

    A balanced look at the degree to which science can alter our genetic makeup. There is a danger that simplistic thinking could assume that there is a gene for something like homosexuality, whereas science is...

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  2. Euthanasia (2011)

    Subject
    Law; Medical sciences; Philosophy; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 25 minutes), £39.00

    Do people have the right to die? Should the state condone the deliberate killing of a person? This film investigates the various religious, moral and philosophical arguments surrounding euthanasia and...

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  3. IVF (2011)

    Subject
    Medical sciences; Philosophy; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 20 minutes), £49.00 (DVD), £20.00 (1 Year Digital Licence), £49.00 (3 Year Digital Licence)

    It is estimated that 3 million people worldwide have been conceived via in vitro fertilization, or IVF. Having this still relatively recent technology has led us to question who ‘deserves’ it, and the...

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  4. Genetic Engineering (2011)

    Subject
    Philosophy; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 20 minutes), £49.00 (DVD), £20.00 (1 Year Digital Licence), £49.00 (3 Year Digital Licence)

    Genetic engineering may be one of the greatest breakthroughs in recent history, however, with scientific advancements new ethical issues are raised, forcing us to ask not how, but if we should push genetic...

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  5. Ethical Textiles (2011)

    Subject
    Business studies; Design; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 26 minutes), £45.00

    Filmed in Bangladesh, one of the world’s largest textile manufacturers, this resource explores the social cost of our cheap textiles. With footage filmed inside a number of Bangladeshi textile factories,...

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  6. When Bankers Were Good (2011)

    Subject
    Economics; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £15.00

    Documentary. Ian Hislop takes a look at attitudes to money and morality when the City of London first became the world’s financial capital. Victorian bankers achieved wealth on a scale never envisaged by...

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  7. Biotechnology in the 21st Century Series (4 Parts) (2010)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 4 x 25 minutes), £249.00 (series)

    Biotechnology is revolutionising life in the 21st century, but with every breakthrough comes controversy. Do the benefits of stem cell technology, gene-splicing, and other advances outweigh the risks? Using...

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  8. Bitter Taste of Tea, The: A Journey into the World of Fair Trade (2010)

    aka: Den Bitre Smag Af Te

    Director
    Tom Heinemann
    Subject
    Agriculture; Business studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 58 minutes), 28 euros

    This programme travels to tea estates in Sri Lanka, Kenya, India, and Bangladesh—some traditional, some fair trade—to expose unsafe work environments and labour exploitation. The workers are plucking tea...

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  9. Dialogues (2008)

    Subject
    Philosophy

    Nobel Prize-winner and best-selling author Elie Wiesel explores compelling issues of moral responsibility in this provocative series made for US television channel PBS. DIALOGUES, moderated by Richard D....

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  10. Cloning: How and Why (2008)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 34 minutes), £35.00

    Visits the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, where Dolly the sheep was cloned, and Neal First’s laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where the first cloning of a cow from an embryonic cell took...

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