Ethics

For six excellent games to recap or revise based on ContentGenerator go to: http://www.rsrevision.com/games/alevel/humangeneticengineering.htm

 WORKBOOK: Genetic Engineering  In this section we apply the ethical principles of Natural law, Kantian and Utilitarian Ethics to four case…

UPDATE: GE in 2015 In this new series, I regularly update the applied ethical issues, creating hyperlinks to newspaper articles that…

An exploration by Professor Lawrence Hinman of the ethical issues implied by genetically modifying embryos Genetic manipulation of embryos from Peped

Religion and ethics by Lawrence Hinman 1. 10/12/15 ©Lawrence M. Hinman 1 Lawrence M. Hinman, Ph.D. Director, The Values InstituteUniversity of…

IVF Issues At what point should pre-embryos/embryos be considered to have human rights? Is "creating", discarding, freezing, or manipulating them morally…

source United Kingdom Is sex selection legal? British law says that parents are only able to select the sex of their…

Utilitarian ethics and IVF treatments – is it worth it? Click here for a YouTube clip from My Sister’s Keeper Pleasure/…

Q & A: what are embryonic stem cells?What are embryonic stem cells, why do they excite scientists and why are they…

Past Questions Genetic Engineering and Embryo Research Genetic engineering and embryo research is part of the Applied Ethics element of the…

For an excellent case study on the film My Sister’s Keeper go to: http://www.scu.edu/ethics-center/cases/my-sisters-keeper.cfm A powerpoint on the scientific background is…

http://www.catholicinsight.com/online/church/vatican/article_475.shtml A human being comes into existence at the moment of fertilization of an oocyte (ovum) by a sperm. This fact…

Jason and Lesley Gregory has baby Michael to save their daughter Harriet. But are saviour siblings ethical? Harriet was born with…

Right to a child: IVF and other treatments Here are the NHS guidelines on who has the right to fertility treatment…

The daily telegraph reviews the story of IVF treatments which began on July 25th 1978 with the birth of Louise Brown,…

Catholicism and Genetic Science from Acta Apolosticae, Pope Pius XII (1952) Genetic testing, screening, genetic counselling, and gene patenting are emerging…

Click on the link below for a full survey of current and past reports, with further links to documents: http://www.churchofengland.org/our-views/medical-ethics-health-social-care-policy/hfea.aspx

source Positive Eugenics – is it even an Issue? Much has been made in science fiction, notably in Aldous Huxley’s “Brave…

This extract from the independent discusses a recent ruling that patents on embryonic stem cell research are immoral and illegal. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/ruling-on-stemcell-patents-may-spell-end-of-research-in-europe-2275771.html…

This extract from a longer article by Dieter Birnbacher (source below) argues that the preference utilitarian case for embryo research fails…

The article on the link below argues that there are many risks involved in genetic engineering. The release of genetically altered…

In this Faraday paper John Bryant explores the ethcial issues underlying geentic modification. http://www.faraday.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/resources/Faraday%20Papers/Faraday%20Paper%207%20Bryant_EN.pdf

Click on this link for a number of articles and powerpoints by Chris Farrow. http://sites.google.com/site/farrowsthings/as-religious-studies/as-religious-ethics/applied-ethics/genetic-engineering

Peter Singer argues that the morality of embryo wastage is no different to the use of contraception or celibacy – all…