by Alexis DUPORT | 28 Feb, 2009 | Gènéthique informs you
Since October 2006, the Agency of Biomedicine experiments, with discretion and in nine hospitals (in Angers, Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseille, Nancy, Strasbourg and the Saint-Louis, Pitié-Salpêtrière and Bicêtre Hospitals in Paris), the organ transplantation on cardiac...
by Alexis DUPORT | 28 Feb, 2009 | Gènéthique informs you
Eluana Englaro, a 38-year-old young Italian woman who fell into a coma after a car accident 17 years ago, died on Monday 9th February, without nutrition and hydration during 3 days, after a long judicial struggle which shook Italy up. At Eluana’s father request made...
by Alexis DUPORT | 28 Feb, 2009 | Gènéthique informs you
Sexuality of minors The story of Alfie Patten, this young English boy which became father at 13 years old on last 9th February, reopened the debate about the sexuality of minors. In 2007, England and Wales counted 8,196 teenagers under 16 pregnant. The...
by Alexis DUPORT | 31 Jan, 2009 | Gènéthique informs you
The Revue française de science politique (French Review of Political Science) of April 2009 published an article by Isabelle Engeli, called “La problématisation de la procréation médicalement assistée en France et en Suisse (the critical scrutiny...
by Alexis DUPORT | 31 Jan, 2009 | Gènéthique informs you
While the Bishop’s Conference of France has just published “Bioéthique, propos pour un dialogue”, with a view to the revision of the Bioethics law, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, in Vatican, in December 2008, published a new instruction,...
by Alexis DUPORT | 31 Jan, 2009 | Gènéthique informs you
While we celebrate this year the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the origin of Down Syndrome by Jerôme Lejeune 2, Jean-Marie Le Méné, chairman of Jérôme Lejeune foundation 3, published a book in which he dismantles the workings of the organisation of French...
