Institute of Ideas Genes and Society Festival, Battersea Arts Centre, London At the Genes and Society Festival, Harry Griffin, Acting Director of the Roslin Institute, reflected on the scientific significance of Dolly the sheep. In a follow-up interview, I asked him whether he thought she had any cultural significance. With the creation of Dolly,the Roslin Institute […]
Archives for April 2003
Genetics and Disability
Institute of Ideas Genes and Society Festival, Battersea Arts Centre, London ‘Does the aspiration to eliminate disability through genetic technology necessarily denigrate the disabled as people?’ Duleep Allirajah, disability policy analyst, explained to the uninitiated how, contrary to the medical model, campaigners insist that people are ‘disabled by society not their bodies’. To this end, […]