Understanding science

1: From cloning and genetic immortality to super-bugs and premature death: medicine, society and the development of government policy

Seminar date: 6 November 1998

• Introduction
  Professor Sir Gabriel Horn FRS

Topic 1 Scientific, Medical and Social Aspects

• Dr Anne McLaren DBE FRS
  What is meant by the cloning of organisms? Implications for humans
• Dr John Sulston FRS
  Objectives of the human and other genome projects
• Professor Martin Evans FRS
  Transgenics: finding gene function by experimental animal genetics - human health, disease and gene therapy
• Professor Martin Bobrow CBE FRCP
  Medicine in the next decade: from identifying populations at risk to identifying individuals at risk. Medical and social consequences
• Dr Peter Leadlay
  Premature death and the resurgence of infectious diseases. Tackling the problems

Topic 2 Legal and Ethical Implications

• Dr Yvonne Cripps
  Legal aspects of the medical applications of cloning and genetic engineering
• Dr Onora O'Neill CBE FBA
  Genetic information and ignorance

The title of this document is: Understanding science: 1: From cloning and genetic immortality to super-bugs and premature death: medicine, society and the development of government policy
URL: http://www.cam.ac.uk/about/scienceseminars/policy/

Seminar presented: 06/11/1998