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Search - Altering the Blueprint: The Ethics of Genetics (Audio CD) (Unabridged)
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Altering the Blueprint The Ethics of Genetics - Audio CD - Unabridged Author: PORTABLE PROFESSOR™ is a series of exciting and informative lectures recorded by some of today's most renowned university and college professors. Each course introduces listeners to fascinating, and sometimes startling, insights into the intellectual forces that shape our understanding of the world. Each package includes 14 riveting... more » 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 An Overview of the Techniques for Creating Humans When Does Life Begin? The Human Embryo What Sort of Children Shall We Have? The Science of Reproduction Cloning: I Want Them to Take After Me A Boy Please: Sex Selection Abortion? Who's My Mother? Who's My Father? Surrogacy A Sorting Vat for Babies: Screening for Abnormalities Superboy and Wondergirl: Genetic Enhancement Spare-Part Children The Right to Reproduce Life-Boat Ethics: Population Control Hard Choices: Ethics in Intensive Care Science as a Father 8 CDs, 5.5 hrs. 14 lectures, book-length course guide
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