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Altering the Blueprint: The Ethics of Genetics (Audio CD) (Unabridged)
Altering the Blueprint The Ethics of Genetics - Audio CD - Unabridged
Author: Alexander McCall Smith
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Reproduction is a process fundamental to every known species, so it is no surprise that human beings, perhaps the most self-reflective of all species, spend so much time thinking about the implications of creating life anew. In this intriguing series of lectures, Professor Alexander McCall Smith explores the startling, and occasionally unsettling, ethical choices that humans face now that medical technology has made it possible to guide the hand of creation with increasing levels of precision and purpose.

COURSE LECTURES

  1. An Overview of the Techniques for Creating Humans
  2. When Does Life Begin? The Human Embryo
  3. What Sort of Children Shall We Have? The Science of Reproduction
  4. Cloning: I Want Them to Take After Me
  5. A Boy Please: Sex Selection
  6. Abortion?
  7. Who's My Mother? Who's My Father? Surrogacy
  8. A Sorting Vat for Babies: Screening for Abnormalities
  9. Superboy and Wondergirl: Genetic Enhancement
  10. Spare-Part Children
  11. The Right to Reproduce
  12. Life-Boat Ethics: Population Control
  13. Hard Choices: Ethics in Intensive Care
  14. Science as a Father


8 CDs,  5.5 hrs. 14 lectures, book-length course guide
Audio Books swap for two (2) credits.
ISBN-13: 9780760750193
ISBN-10: 076075019X
Publication Date: 2004
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Publisher: Barnes and Noble
Book Type: Audio CD
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