Course notes for students of the Edexcel syllabus on Medical Ethics Part 1: beginning of life issues
From the Paper 2 syllabus for Religion and Ethics: 6.1 Issues in medical ethics with a focus on beginning and end of life debates (4) a) The status of the embryo, concepts of sanctity and value of life from religious and secular perspectives, embryo research, pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), stem cells and cord blood, fertilisation …