Creating Humans: Ethical Questions Where Reproduction and Science Collide (Modern Scholar)

Front Cover of Creating Humans Ethical Questions Where Reproduction and Science Collide (2008) 84p 1402585969......Page 1
Title Page
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Copyright
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Table of Contents: Course SyllabusCreating Humans:Ethical Questions Where Reproductionand Science Collide......Page 4
About Your Professor Alexander McCall Smith......Page 5
Introduction......Page 6
Lecture 1:An Overview of the Techniques for Creating Humans......Page 7
Lecture 2: When Does Life Begin? The Human Embryo......Page 11
Lecture 3: What Sort of Children Shall We Have?The Science of Reproduction......Page 16
Lecture 4: Cloning: I Want Them to Take After Me......Page 23
Lecture 5: A Boy Please:Sex Selection......Page 29
Lecture 6: Abortion?......Page 36
Lecture 8:A Sorting Vat for Babies:Screening for Abnormalities......Page 46
Lecture 7: Who’s My Mother?  Who’s My Father? Surrogacy......Page 41
Lecture 9: Superboy and Wondergirl: Genetic Enhancement The Suggested Reading for this lecture is the Roger Gosden’s......Page 52
Lecture 10: Spare-Part Children The Suggested Reading for this lecture is the D.S. Davis’s......Page 58
Lecture 11: The Right to Reproduce The Suggested Reading for this lecture is the Nuffield Council on Bioethics’s report......Page 64
Lecture 12: Life-Boat Ethics: Population Control The Suggested Reading for this lecture is Louis Horowitz’s......Page 68
Lecture 13: Hard Choices: Ethics in Intensive Care The Suggested Reading for this lecture is John D. Lantos’s......Page 73
Lecture 14: Science As a Father The Suggested Reading for this lecture is Mark A. Rothstein’s......Page 78