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?
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
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