THE FIRST 'DESIGNER BABY': The Role of Narratives, Cliches and Metaphors in the Year 2000 Media Debate

摘要

The public do not like, and we do not like the idea of designer babies (Ruth Deech, then Chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority., quoted in The Independent, 18 October 2000). We are all on the slippery slope―the question we should be asking is: skis or crampons (Professor John Harris, The Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, University of Manchester, in an interview with Susan Johnson).