Book ID: CBB001212716

Embryo Politics: Ethics and Policy in Atlantic Democracies (2011)

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Banchoff, Thomas F. (Author)


Cornell University Press


Publication Date: 2011
Physical Details: vii + 294 pp.
Language: English

Since the first fertilization of a human egg in the laboratory in 1968, scientific and technological breakthroughs have raised ethical dilemmas and generated policy controversies on both sides of the Atlantic. Embryo, stem cell, and cloning research have provoked impassioned political debate about their religious, moral, legal, and practical implications. National governments make rules that govern the creation, destruction, and use of embryos in the laboratory---but they do so in profoundly different ways. In Embryo Politics, Thomas Banchoff provides a comprehensive overview of political struggles aboutembryo research during four decades in four countries---the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and France. Banchoff's book, the first of its kind, demonstrates the impact of particular national histories and institutions on very different patterns of national governance. Over time, he argues, partisan debate and religious-secular polarization have come to overshadow ethical reflection and political deliberation on the moral status of the embryo and the promise of biomedical research. Only by recovering a robust and public ethical debate will we be able to govern revolutionary life-science technologies effectively and responsibly into the future.

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Description On the political struggles over embryo research the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and France since 1968.


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Essay Review Fordyce, Lauren (2013) “Life” Histories: Examining Embryo and Fetal Politics in Modern Western Democracies. History: Reviews of New Books (pp. 5-8). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Custred, Glynn
Erin Heidt-Forsythe
Jeong, Yeonbo
Franklin, Sarah
Wörmann, Stefan
Weingart, Peter
Concepts
Biology and ethics; bioethics
Stem cells
Science and politics
Cloning of organisms
Reproductive medicine
Biomedical technology
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
Modern
20th century
Places
United States
Great Britain
Germany
South Korea
France
China
Institutions
Human Genome Project
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