Designer babies. Dangers of corporate genetics
Description
Imagine a future in which physical strength and assertiveness are the top-selling items on "baby menus." This program explores that possibility and other frightening implications of market-driven genetic engineering. Showing how the government-funded Human Genome Project has become highly lucrative for pharmaceutical companies, the video examines cases of exploitative gene harvesting in Iceland and Peru, where isolated ethnic populations contain commercially valuable DNA. Interviews with prominent scientists and activists highlight the dangers of patenting genomic data and an absence of public discourse about artificial gene selection.
Runtime
59 min
Subjects
- Embryology (43)
- Human reproduction (85)
- Ethics (196)
- Business ethics (382)
- Generative organs (45)
- Heredity, Human (127)
- Medical ethics (151)
- Philosophy (274)
- Reproduction (175)
- Genetics (271)
Genre
Date of Publication
[2005], c2005
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