Making better babies. Genetics and reproduction
Description
How far should people be allowed to go in trying to have better babies? And whose definition of "better" should prevail? This Fred Friendly Seminar moderated by Dateline NBC correspondent John Hockenberry considers the ethical dilemmas facing individuals and society that grow out of prenatal testing and genetic options that may be available in the future - such as cloning. Panelists include Francis Collins, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute; ABC journalist Meredith Vieira; Princeton University's Lee Silver, author of Remaking Eden: How Genetic Engineering and Cloning Will Transform the American Family; Commissioner Paul Miller of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; Adrienne Asch, Henry R. Luce Professor in Biology, Ethics, and the Politics of Human Reproduction at Wellesley College; Faye Wattleton, president of the Center for Gender Equality; and Zev Rosenwaks, director of The Center for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility at the New York Weill Cornell Medical Center.
Runtime
57 min
Series
Subjects
- Embryology (43)
- Reproductive health (95)
- Human reproduction (85)
- Ethics (196)
- Generative organs (45)
- Heredity, Human (127)
- Medical ethics (151)
- Philosophy (274)
- Reproduction (175)
- Genetics (271)
Genre
Date of Publication
[2006], c2003
Database
Films on Demand
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