Should modern medicine keep us ‘alive’ in order to harvest our organs and then turn us off? Are we just flesh or spirit too? Can your behaviour affect your unborn children? Should you modify it for them? How do we distinguish between moral choices and medical ones? Is science ever trustworthy or just a matter of fact? What kind of constraints should it operate under?

STRAND CONVENOR: Sandy Starr.

INTRODUCED BY: Jenny Jopson, events officer, Wellcome Collection.