Welcome to the Making Sense of: Issues at the Beginning of Life portal page. The site is presently being developed and further information will become available shortly.

Making Sense of: Issues at the Beginning of Life is a new project for 2003 and will focus on the combined impact of developing technology alongside the culture of progeny at all costs.

There will be roughly seven areas of exploration;

1. Technology and Pre-birth issues.
2. Pregnancy and Rights issues.
3. The Use of Human Material.
4. Changing Concepts of Human Identity.
5. Issues of Human Life in the Third World and Developing Countries
6. Changing concepts of the Person and particularly of the body as machine or the body as consumable parts.
7. Future Agendas for Human Being - are we choosing our values or are they being imposed on us through the availability of technology? People and organ donation for use after death. Do patients have rights to every possible treatment? Financial and economy considerations, shortage issues, triage etc. Why strive to keep alive? Advantages of the rich?

These are indicative themes - and more will be identified as the project develops. The full site will be available within the next three weeks.