Article ID: CBB965696186

Fetal and animal research in Sweden: The construction of viable lives in regulatory policy debates, 1970–1980 (2021)

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Following demands to regulate biomedicine in the post-war period, Sweden saw several political debates about research ethics in the 1970s. Many of the debates centered on fetal research and animal experiments. At stake were questions of moral permissibility, public transparency, and scientific freedom. However, these debates did not only reveal ethical disagreement—they also contributed to constructing new boundaries between life-forms. Taking a post-Marxist approach to discursive policy analysis, we argue that the meaning of both the “human” and the “animal” in these debates was shaped by a need to manage a legitimacy crisis for medical science. By analyzing Swedish government bills, motions, parliamentary debates, and committee memorials from the 1970s, we map out how fetal and animal research were constituted as policy problems. We place particular emphasis on the problematization of fetal and animal vulnerability. By comparing the debates, we trace out how a particular vision of the ideal life defined the human-animal distinction.

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Authors & Contributors
Brad Bolman
Blomkvist, Pär
Georg Striedter
Magaly Tornay
Emanuel, Martin
Joks, Solveig
Concepts
Experimental organisms
Laboratory animals
Regulation
Medicine and ethics
Models and modeling in science
Laboratory techniques and procedures
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
Places
Sweden
United States
Europe
United Kingdom
Hawaii (U.S.)
West Germany
Institutions
Cambridge. University. Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Stockholm. Karolinska Mediko-Kirurgiska Institutet
Hanford Nuclear Site (Washington)
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