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Conceiving the Future
- Year of completion
- 1992
- Content type
- Documentary
- Format
- Short
- Genre
- Science
- Duration
- 55 minutes
- Production Status
- Completed
Synopsis
Investigates the dilemmas of people faced with the choice of testing their foetus for disease and questions whether past racial policies ('eugenics') of the 20th century, implemented to eradicate disability and disease, could be revisited. Could the eugenic past be a prelude for a genetic future?