Comparative Biomedical Policy

Governing Assisted Reproductive Technologies

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7266972
AutoresMichael O’neill (0000-0001-5224-9121, University of Ottawa, autor de correspondencia), Michael A O'Neill
Año2005
Volumen38
Número2
Páginas507-509
Fecha de publicación2005-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCanadian Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0008-4239 • E-ISSN: 1744-9324
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0008423905339990
OpenAlexW2135204977
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas24

Comparative Biomedical Policy: Governing Assisted Reproductive Technologies, Ivor Bleiklei, Malcolm L. Goggin and Christine Rothmayr, eds., London: Routledge, 2004, pp. 284. Few issues have the potential to combine elements of science fact and science fiction as does the field of biomedical research and its offshoot, assisted reproductive technologies (ART). As newspapers testify with regularity, this area of science and medicine uniquely combines promises for the improvement of human health but also exemplifies the dangers associated with scientists playing god with the very the building blocks of our species. Confronted with these stark opposites, public authorities have entered the fray and have tried, with varied responses, to frame these practices in such as way as to encourage and stimulate the positive elements of this area of research and medicine, such as in vitro fertilization , while cutting off or severely circumscribing the areas which have been deemed immoral or unethical, such as human cloning. It is where issues of morality or ethics enter the policy discourse that the waters get murky and where, as a result, governments find the arbitration between first-person experiences and societal norms the most difficult

Bioethics · Biology · Business · Engineering ethics · Environmental ethics · Field (mathematics · Human cloning · Morality · Newspaper · Payment · Political science · Public relations · Reproductive technology · Sociology · Engineering · Law · Philosophy · Reproductive Health and Technologies