"In treatment of human infertility..."
| In treatment of human infertility there is no shortage of donated sperm | |
| However, donated ova are in very short supply | |
| All the oocytes that a woman will produce in her life time are laid down in foetal development | |
| Aborted female foetuses could therefore be used as a source of �donated� ova | |
| Do you approve/disapprove? |
Why should we teach ethics to bioscience students?
| What are your reasons? |
| Animal experimentation | |
| Genetic modification | |
| Environmental issues � disposal of isotopes | |
| Human data | |
| Allocation of resources |
| Genetic modification | ||
| Crops and food | ||
| Safety, equity and justice | ||
| Animals | ||
| Human | ||
| Designer babies / donor babies | ||
| Genome projects | ||
| Use of information | ||
| Possibility of discrimination | ||
| Confidentiality and autonomy | ||
| Philosophical applications: genetic reductionism or GenesЯus | ||
| Reproductive technology | ||
| How far should we go? | ||
| Cloning | ||
| Stem cell research | ||
| Status of the early embryo | ||
| Intrinsic versus instrumental value | ||
| Whose ecosystem is it anyway? | ||
| Rio etc | ||
| Who rules the world? | ||
| Medical ethics | ||
| Hippocrates, Codes of Practice, Post-Nuremberg (Jonsen) | ||
| Environmental | ||
| Leopold, Carson, White, Potter | ||
| Bioethics | ||
| Biomedical science is presenting us with �unprecedented choices� | |
| Do we have the ethical tools to deal with those choices? | |
| How do we make choices? | |
| Muddling through | |
| The �Yuk Factor� | |
| Deontological systems | |
| Consequentialist systems | |
| Virtue, Prudence and Wisdom |