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Author Index - Jacky Engel

Jacky Engel has an MA in Medical Law and Ethics and is CMF's ethics research and publications assistant.

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War Against the Weak (Book Review) (triple helix - autumn 2004)

Edwin Black painstakingly traces the development of eugenic ideology, from its early days in British academia to the take over by wellfunded American institutions, and its later disgrace in Hitler's Third Reich. Eugenic ideals about the superior white 'Nordic' race were so unquestioningly accepted in governmental and 'society' circles, that...

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Abortion Law Reform (nucleus - winter 2004)

On April 27 1938 a girl of 14 was raped by a group of guardsmen at Wellington Barracks in west London. She became pregnant as a result. The first doctor asked to terminate the pregnancy was a Roman Catholic who refused. The second doctor, Aleck Bourne, admitted the girl to...

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Being Me – what it means to be human (Book Review) (triple helix - spring 2004)

'What does it mean to be human?' is a question that has been asked throughout the ages, and definitions are difficult to find. As Pete Moore recognises, 'Any approach to define who I am is doomed from the outset because we will always be more complex than can be catered...

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Abortion for 'serious handicap' - An important case to win (triple helix - winter 2004)

On 1 December 2003 Joanna Jepson (right) was granted permission to launch a judicial review concerning a case of late abortion of a fetus diagnosed with cleft lip and palate. Miss Jepson originally approached the West Mercia police in October 2002, who declined to investigate the termination after obtaining a...

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The end of the postcode lottery - But who will pay? (triple helix - autumn 2003)

Draft guidance from NICE (National Institute of Clinical Excellence), Fertility: assessment and treatment for people with fertility problems,[1] has identified a number of issues as priorities for infertility treatment provision on the NHS. Among them is the recommendation that up to three complete treatment cycles should be freely available to...

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Cloning Update (nucleus - autumn 2003)

The boundaries of the cloning saga have shifted yet again as new discoveries - and failures - cast doubt on whether human cloning is actually possible. Scientists seem reluctant to abandon trying to develop some way of successfully cloning humans, but have been moving away from the cell nuclear replacement...

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Late termination (triple helix - winter 2003)

Two stories about late termination of pregnancy for fetal abnormality have recently hit the headlines. In the first, a Cambridge student made an allegation of unlawful killing after discovering, in the official national statistics, a case of abortion after 24 weeks for cleft lip and palate.[1,2] The police will have...

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Sex Selection - Why Bother? (nucleus - spring 2003)

The desire to choose the sex of your offspring isn't a new phenomenon. Various methods have been employed over the centuries, primarily to ensure a son and heir, with most founded more on superstition than fact. The difference now is that the application of science enables couples to make a...

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