Summary The life sciences and human rights: radical and uncontrolled change, or legislation French style Mr. Franck Sérusclat, senator (1992) This voluminous report (two volumes with over a thousand pages) provides parliamentarians with the results of all the discussions noted during 350 hours of interviews in 1991, in eight countries, and the documents collected on medically-assisted human reproduction, genetics and prenatal diagnostics, the status of the human body and end-of-life considerations. This report was used to prepare the parliamentary debate on bioethics and remains a reference document in many conferences and meetings organised on this topic.