The World's Oldest Mums
Director: Channel 4
Year: 2009
Country: UK
Duration: 60 mins
Rating: N/A
Filed under: Human Embryology, Documentary
Cutting Edge travels the world to meet four women who - long after the menopause prevented them from getting pregnant the old-fashioned way - have chosen to use fertility technology to have babies. Documentary on Elizabeth Adeney, a 66 year-old woman who went to the Ukraine for fertility treatment and then gave birth to a son, and four other women of similar ages who have followed in her footsteps. The film considers the ethical issues such a course of action raises and also the rights of the soon-to-be orphaned children. (Aired Channel 4, 23 July 2009, 21.00)
This Biomedical Ethics Film Library is being presented in partnership with European Medical Students' Association (EMSA)
Film Topics
- Abortion (9)
- Biomedical Research (14)
- Bionics and Cyborg Technologies (8)
- Care of the Elderly and Geriatrics (3)
- Creation Identity - Sperm, Egg and Embryo Donation (22)
- Eugenics and Genetic Enhancement (37)
- Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide (28)
- Human Cloning (31)
- Human Dignity - Full Moral Status (10)
- Human Embryology (16)
- Human Genetics (14)
- Human Sexuality and Biology (1)
- Human Transplantation (17)
- Human-Nonhuman Hybrids and Chimeras (11)
- Neuroethics and the Neurobiology of Moral Responsibility (1)
- Organ Trafficking (13)
- Psychiatry (34)
- Surrogacy (5)
- Xenotranplantation (9)