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The Modern Scholar
- Creating Humans: Ethical Questions Where Reproduction and Science Collide
- Narrated by: Alexander McCall Smith
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
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Publisher's summary
In this course, we will discuss the various moral aspects of human reproduction from methods of conception to methods of ending a pregnancy. We will discuss the moral, cultural, legal, and political influences on reproduction as well as the scientific advances in reproductive technology. Hopefully at the end of this course we will not have arrived at answers to the various questions raised, but will have provided a base for us to consider the issues at hand and a desire to pursue more study in the important aspects of creating humans.
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