Faculty - November 19, 2010

Who Made Me? The Ethical Issues That IVF Families Face

Bioethics

The recent award of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Medicine to Dr. Robert Edwards recognizes important research that led to the development of In Vitro Fertilization (IVF).

But the work that he, along with his late colleague, Dr. Patrick Steptoe, conducted at Cambridge University raises profound questions that, with the evolving modern family, many doctors, patients and potential parents continue to struggle with decades later.