Publications

This report considers what the Government, industry and individuals should do to enable people to lead a healthy life.

This report uses the principle of proportionality as a basis for recommendations in a number of areas including the use of the National DNA Database.

This report discusses the ethical, legal and social issues raised and proposes guidelines on giving intensive care to babies born before 26 weeks.

This supplement to our 1993 report on genetic screening summarises scientific, technological and policy-related developments that have taken place over the past 13 years in the UK.

This report seeks to clarify the debate on research involving animals and aims to help people think through the ethical issues that are raised.

This discussion paper is a follow-up to the Council’s 1999 report on GM crops.

This report considers the implications of pharmacogenetics for research and development of medicines, clinical practice and treatment, and the use and storage of genetic information.

Research is exploring how genes and the environment influence behavioural traits. This report addresses concerns over how this information could be used to try to predict, change or select such traits.