Genetics and Morality
Recorded at Newcastle's Centre for Life, Professor Sandel looks at how we should use our ever-increasing scientific knowledge.
Professor Michael Sandel delivers four lectures about the prospects of a new politics of the common good. The series is presented and chaired by Sue Lawley.
Recorded at the Centre for Life in Newcastle, Sandel considers how we should use our ever-increasing scientific knowledge. New genetic technologies hold great promise for treating and curing disease, but how far we should go in using them to manipulate muscles, moods and gender?
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- Tue 23 Jun 200909:00BBC Radio 4
- Sat 27 Jun 200922:15BBC Radio 4
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