Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Executive Vice President of the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation, opens the film by describing, along with a simulated depiction, a birthing scene of a Down's Syndrome infant with duodenal atresia ...

This 1973 classic bioethics film in bioethics education discusses the rights of the retarded. Bertha, a mildly retarded young woman (not Down's Syndrome), was given an IUD at age 15, and requests its removal when she is ...

Program on pregnancy disability, includes an interview with Andre Hellegers, M.D., first director of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics. Everywoman was a daily one-hour talk show that aired on Channel 9 WUSA in Washington, ...

This segment of Donahue [the Phil Donahue Show] focuses on in-vitro fertilization or test tube babies shortly after the birth of Louise Brown in England on July 25, 1978. The date for the segment is 1978. Dr. Andre ...

It s a behind-the-screen look at the tyrants of television and what they ve done to us - writer Paddy Chayefsky s savage satire, Network. Peter Finch gives an unforgettable, Oscar-winning performance as Howard Beale, the ...

This early television classic continues to be used for education. Participants are Sidney Callahan, The Hastings Center; David C. Abrahamson, Georgetown pediatrician, Warren T. Reich, Kennedy Institute of Ethics scholar; ...

This highly-acclaimed winner of five Emmy Awards is one of the best-loved movies ever made for television. It's the true story of a special relationship between two professional football players, Gale Sayers (Billy Dee ...

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