From IVF to Immortality: Controversy in the Era of Reproductive Technology - Softcover

Deech, Ruth; Smajdor, Anna

 
9780199219797: From IVF to Immortality: Controversy in the Era of Reproductive Technology
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0199219796 ISBN 13: 9780199219797
Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2007

Synopsis

For those who wonder about the ethics of cloning, this is the first book to explore the legal and ethical implications of reproductive technologies.

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About the Author

Ruth Deech was chair of the Human Fertilisation & Embryology Authority from 1994-2002, during the period when stem cell research was legalised in the UK. She is an academic lawyer, former Principal of St Anne's College Oxford, former Governor of the BBC and Rhodes Trustee, honorary Bencher of the Inner Temple, and currently the first Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education. Created a life peer in 2005, she sits as a crossbencher in the House of Lords.


Anna Smajdor's background is in Philosophy, and she been working and researching in the field of Bioethics for 5 years. She has an ongoing interest in the diverse ethical quandaries which are thrown up by novel developments in all areas of medicine and the life sciences.


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Publisher
OUP Oxford
Publication date
2007
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0199219796
ISBN 13 
9780199219797
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
248

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