Selection of embryos

Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill 2007. See http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Legislation/Actsandbills/DH_080211 (last checked 15 March 2008)

Robertson JA . Extending preimplantation genetic diagnosis: the ethical debate. Ethical issues in new uses of preimplantation genetic diagnosis. Hum Reprod 2003;18:465–71

Henn W . Consumerism in prenatal diagnosis: a challenge for ethical guidelines. J Med Ethics 2000;26;444–6

Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority. Choices and Boundaries: Should People be able to Select Embryos Free from an Inherited Susceptibility to Cancer. London: HFEA, 2006

Brock DW . The non-identity problem and genetic harms – the case of wrongful handicaps. Bioethics 1995;9:269–75

Slowther A . The concept of autonomy and its interpretation in health care. Clinical Ethics 2007;2:173–5

The Ethics Committee of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine. Sex selection and preimplantation genetic diagnosis. Fertil Steril 2004;82:274–8

Scully JL , Banks S , Shakespeare T . Chance, choice and control: lay debate on prenatal social sex selection. Soc Sci Med 2006;63:1, 21–31

Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority. Sex Selection: Options for Regulation. London: HFEA, 2003

Häyry M . There is a difference between selecting a deaf embryo and deafening a hearing child. J Med Ethics 2004;30:510–12

Edwards SD . Disability, identity and the ‘expressivist’ objection. J Med Ethics 2004;30:418–20

Devolder K . Preimplantation HLA typing: having children to save our loved ones. J Med Ethics 2005;31:582–6

Ehrich K , Williams C , Farsides B , Sandall J , Scott R . Choosing embryos: ethical complexity and relational autonomy in staff accounts of PGD. Sociol Health Illn 2007;29:1091–106

Petersen A . The best experts: the narratives of those who have a genetic condition. Soc Sci Med 2006;63:1, 32–42

Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority. See www.hfea.gov.uk/. The regulatory authority in the UK has published a list of conditions for which PIGD and embryo selection is licensed.

Nuffield Council on Bioethics. Genetics and Human Behaviour: the Ethical Context. London: The Nuffield Council, 2001. See www.nuffieldbioethics.org/go/ourwork/behaviouralgenetics/introduction