This film documents the PET event '100 Years of 'Daedalus': The Birth of Assisted Reproductive Technology'.
The event was sponsored by Cambridge Reproduction, the University of Cambridge and the Anne McLaren Memorial Trust Fund.
(If you cannot see the film below, click here to view it.)
|
|
|
| Introductions |
|
| 0:00:00 | Sarah Norcross Director, Progress Educational Trust |
| 0:00:42 | Sandy Starr Deputy Director, Progress Educational Trust |
| Presentations |
|
| 0:05:23 | Samanth Subramanian Author, A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of JBS Haldane |
| 0:18:09 | Professor Max Saunders Author, Imagined Futures: Writing, Science, and Modernity in the 'Today and Tomorrow' Book Series |
| 0:28:53 | Professor Nick Hopwood Author, The Many Births of the Test-Tube Baby |
| 0:41:11 | Dr Chloe Romanis Assistant Professor in Biolaw, Durham University |
| Discussion |
|
| 0:50:56 | Responses to audience questions and comments |
|
|
|
This film was made by Video Production Edinburgh.
Related Articles
FILM: The First Transhumanist? Haldane's 'Daedalus' 100 Years On
This film documents a lecture by Sandy Starr – deputy director of PET – about the life and legacy of JBS Haldane, who at one time was the best-known scientist in Britain and who helped to pioneer the idea of IVF...
PET Podcast: 100 Years of 'Daedalus' – The Birth of Assisted Reproductive Technology
Bringing you PET events as a podcast. In the second episode of its podcast, PET looks at how JBS Haldane pioneered the idea of IVF a century ago, with speakers Sandy Starr, Samanth Subramanian, Professor Max Saunders, Professor Nick Hopwood and Dr Chloe Romanis...
100 Years of 'Daedalus': The Birth of Assisted Reproductive Technology
This PET event brought together a range of experts to explore Haldane's legacy and what the next 100 years might have in store for reproductive technology...
JBS Haldane and the birth of IVF
100 years ago, JBS Haldane's 'Daedalus' – a lecture, subsequently a book – helped to pioneer the idea of IVF. In its public event '100 Years of Daedalus: The Birth of Assisted Reproductive Technology', PET will explore Haldane's legacy...
FILM: 200 Years of Mendel – From Peas to Personalised Medicine
This film documents a PET event marking the 200th birthday of genetics pioneer Gregor Mendel, exploring developments from Mendel's original studies of peas through to the latest advances in genomic medicine...
200 Years of Mendel: From Peas to Personalised Medicine
To celebrate Gregor Mendel's 200th birthday, PET and Genomics England held an event reflecting on what science and medicine have inherited from Mendel and what the future holds regarding our understanding and treatment of genetic disorders in the era of whole genome sequencing...
Book Review: A Century of Geneticists — Mutation to medicine
Sir Isaac Newton's famous quote 'If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants' pays homage to the early scholars whose work paved the way for Newton's own discoveries...
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.