From Chance to Choice От случайности к выбору
The Human Genome Project
Проект Геном человека
St Austell
22 October 2002
The Birthmark Родимое пятно by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Perfection?
Science - Fantasy or Reality?
Risky Business?
Consequences - gambling with our future or securing a better future?
GATTACA Columbia Pictures
‘We now have discrimination down to a science’
‘Различает нас современная наука или дискриминирует?’
‘There is no gene for the human spirit’
‘Нет гена кодирующего душу человека’
Assisted Reproductive Technology Всспомогательные репродуктивные технологии
Continuous development of new technologies
- To try and improve ART
- Expand availability of treatment
ART - some facts ВРТ – некоторые факты
In the year 2000 there were about 572,800 ‘natural’ live births and 4,362 live births following ART: that is 0.76%
There are 68 clinics in the UK - over 95% of people pay for their treatment
Is the choice safe? Безопасен ли выбор?
Research and Development
- Rarely established in other species
- Often first try with human embryos
- Few controlled randomised trials
- Not sure if beneficial/long term effects
Choosing your Child Выбери себе ребенка
Defining ‘disease’ and ‘disability’
Pre-implantation genetic selection ‘diagnosis’
Genetic ‘enhancement’ of embryos - why not?
- patenting and commercialisation
HFEA - Research Licence HFEA-Исследовательская лицензия
Advances in infertility treatment
Knowledge about congenital disease
Knowledge about causes of miscarriage
Contraception
PGD
Knowledge about embryo development
Knowledge about serious disease
Developing treatment for serious disease
The Cloning Issue Проблемы клонирования
Does this present any greater unknown than the other ‘treatments’?
- Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine 1997 (UK not signatory)
- Suggested ban on
- Cloning (human reproductive ban)
- Sex Selection (except X linked diseases)
- Creating embryos for research
Stem Cell Research Исследования стволовых клеток
Patient consent for research - for any use, altruistic?
Using ‘Spare’ embryos - why not?
Creating embryos for research
Cloning embryos for research
From Chance to Choice? От Случайности к Выбору?
Where do we want to go from here? Куда мы захотим пойти дальше?
