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A compilation of interviews examining key ethical issues related to new genetic technologies, including understanding the human genome, science ethics and the law, genetic testing, information and...
Ernle Young, Co-Director of Stanford University’s Center for Biomedical Ethics, examines issues of life and death, particularly at the beginning and the end of life.
Looks at possible advances in genetics over the next decade and the consequent ethical dilemmas. Suggests that the technology will soon be in place to analyse in minute detail all the genes responsible for...
An interactive CD-ROM exploring social controversy in the USA. Shows women and couples shown talking about the emotional struggles and moral dilemmas they face in thier consinderation of continuing or...
Asks whether it is right for women past natural childbearing age to undergo fertility treatment. Features 64-year-old Alison Cobb, who spent three years trying to have a baby using fertility treatment, and...
Examines the issue of the use of animals in medical research from both scientific and moral perspectives. Includes interviews with patients, a medical researcher, a family doctor and animal carers at work.
An interactive role-play programme in medical ethics. The user assumes the role of a family physician and is called on to make decisions in ten cases that raise ethical issues similar to those faced by GPs:...
Looks at some of the consequences of genetic research: loss of privacy unless access to personal genetic information is protected; discrimination in employment and insurance based on genetic tests; loss of...
A debate between mothers, doctors and people with various disabilities about the growth of antenatal screening and whether we are risking imposing false values about what makes a life worthwhile.
In the light of the world’s first clone of an adult sheep, asks if society should limit scientific endeavour and questions and whether scientists are responsible enough to monitor their own research. Joan...
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