Baroness Deech: Playing God: who should regulate reproductive medicine?
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Baroness Deech, Chair of the Bar Standards Board, delivers a public lecture at Madingley Hall on 3 October 2011.
The lecture is chaired by Professor Gordon Smith, Head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Cambridge, and introduced by Dr Rebecca Lingwood, Director of Continuing Education. Please note that the lecture proper begins at the 4:10 minute point in the video. |
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| Created: | 2011-10-19 10:34 | ||||
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Madingley Lectures
Madingley Lectures |
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| Publisher: | University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education | ||||
| Copyright: | Baroness Deech | ||||
| Language: | eng (English) | ||||
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| Keywords: | HFEA; reproductive medicine; stem cell research; quangos; | ||||
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iTunes - Psychology & Social Science - Public Administration |
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| Explicit content: | No | ||||
| Aspect Ratio: | 4:3 | ||||
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| Abstract: | Politics have played a more significant part in the regulation of reproductive medicine than is commonly recognised. Starting with the media and parliamentary reaction to the birth of Louise Brown in 1978, to the contemporary parliamentarians' struggle to keep the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) as an integrated body, legislators, clinicians, religious authorities and journalists have competed to seize direction of the way in which this law and regulation develops.
Stem cell work in the UK was legalised in 2001, in part because of the confidence in regulation generated by the existence of the HFEA and in part because of the thoroughness and secular nature of the debate. Britain remains a leading nation in stem cell and reproductive medicine, but this position is now threatened by Government attempts to cut expenditure on quangos. In this thought-provoking lecture Baroness Deech, the former Chair of the HFEA, argues that rearranging the regulatory body will not in fact save money but risks the accountability and security of this field. |
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