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The burden of knowledge : moral dilemmas in prenatal testing / Direct Cinema Limited presents ; by Wendy Conquest, Bob Drake & Deni Elliott.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prenatal diagnosis--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Prenatal diagnosis.
- Wrongful death--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Wrongful death.
- Fetus--Abnormalities--Genetic aspects.
- Fetus.
- Genetic disorders--Diagnosis--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Genetic disorders.
- Genetic disorders--Diagnosis.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (55 min.) : digital, sound, color with black and white sequences
- Place of Publication:
- [Boston, Massachusetts] : [Distributed by] The Fanlight Collection, [2017]
- Language Note:
- Closed captioning available.
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- Explores the difficult ethical issues arising from advances in biotechnology that now make it possible to identify genetic defects during pregnancy. Features interviews with seven couples who speak openly about how they made individual decisions about prenatal testing and how they have dealt with the negative and positive consequences of those decisions.
- Credits:
- Music, Charles Conquest.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced by Wendy Conquest, Bob Drake & Deni Elliott, ©1994.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed September 5, 2017).
- Publisher Number:
- fn-burd Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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