ASRM Today: Book Review of Designing Babies: How Technology is Changing the Ways We Create Children with author Dr. Robert L. Klitzman
Feb 04, 2021
By: ASRM
Origin: ASRM Today Podcast
This special episode of ASRM Today is a preview of a new series, the ASRM Today Book Review, a podcast that interviews the authors who dive deeper into the field of reproductive medicine. Today's episode features a discussion with Dr. Robert Klitzman about his book, Designing Babies: How Technology is Changing the Ways We Create Children.Robert L. Klitzman, MD, is Director of the Masters of Bioethics Program, and a member of the Division of Psychiatry, Law and Ethics, at Columbia University. He co-founded, and for five years, co-directed the Center for Bioethics at Columbia.
He has written nine books, and more than 140 academic articles, drawing on multi-disciplinary methods to examine ethical, psychological and social issues in a variety of contexts in medicine and psychiatry. Specifically, he has examined decision-making concerning HIV disclosure, genetic testing, reproductive choices among individuals at risk for genetic disorders, Institutional Review Boards, and other topics.
The ASRM Today podcast is supported, in part, by the ASRM Corporate Member Council.