Lesson 4 Medicine and Health

What is the topic of today’s lesson?

Lesson objectives• To be aware of the role that our genes and our minds

play in determining our health• To develop an awareness of the basics of reproductive

medicine and its developments

Our genes• What are genes?• What do they do?• Read GENES and highlight the key

points

Answer in your books• Are our genes responsible for our health?

WHY?• Discuss

Is our health in our mind or in our genes?

Watch this video clip and discuss in small groups of 3 or 4

Minds or genes?

Put two columns in your booksMINDS GENES

Bullet point three simple arguments for each that explains how each can have an impact upon

your health

Britain debates “designer babies”

for IVF couplesPosted Mar 24, 2005

Fri 29 Apr 2005

Creation of designer babies

for treatment is lawful, rule

Lords

Monday, 6 September, 2004,

Go ahead for 'designer baby'

Designer babies - the ethical debate

Wednesday, 21 July, 2004, 17:33 GMT 18:33 UK

'Designer baby' rules are relaxed

GENETICALLY ENGINEERED HUMANS

Will we create GM humans?

Thursday, 24 March, 2005, 09:06 GMT Parents 'could pick babies' sex'

Reproductive medicine

• Reproductive medicine deals with prevention, diagnosis and management of reproductive problems; goals include improving or maintaining reproduction and allowing people to have children at a time of their choosing.

• What does the future hold?

Brainstorm

Issues related to designer babies

Discuss the

relevance of this image

Independent learning

• Further reading; The Ethics of Eugenics and Disability– The Sunday Times misses the point June 27, 2006

• http://papundit.wordpress.com