Understanding science

12: Human Reproduction: Selecting for Life: Scientific Basis and Policy Implications

Seminar date: 23 April 2004

• Introduction
  Professor Sir Gabriel Horn FRS

Topic 1 Selection Before and After Fertilisation

• Prof Robert Foley
  Selecting a mate
• Professor Nick Hastie FRS
  Selection for genes?
• Professor Peter Braude MB FRCOG
  Selection of embryos

Topic 2 Selection During Intra-Uterine Life and Childhood

• Professor David Barker FRS
  Selection during the intra-uterine period
• Professor Catherine Peckham CBE MD FRCP
  Selection by experience: the first five years of post-natal life

Topic 3 Social and Ethical Issues

• Dr Monica Konrad
  Offspring, being and wellbeing: parental decision-making
• Professor Thomas Baldwin
  Hard choices in human reproduction

The title of this document is: Understanding science: 12: Human Reproduction: Selecting for Life: Scientific Basis and Policy Implications
URL: http://www.cam.ac.uk/about/scienceseminars/reproduction/

Seminar presented: 06/11/1998