Policy Debates on Reprogenetics - The Problematisation of New Research in Great Britain and Germany

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Theoretical Framework

1 Public Policy Analysis: How to Approach Reprogenetics Policy Discourse?

1.1 Interpretive Approaches to Policy Discourse

1.2 Policy Analysis as Discourse Analysis

1.3 Discourse Stimulation

2 The Relation between Science, Technology, and Society

2.1 From a Deficit Model to the Ethnographic Turn in Public Understanding of Science

2.2 Towards more Participation and Integration of the Public in Science Policy

Policy Debates on Reprogenetics in Great Britain and Germany

3 Great Britain: To Clone or Not to Clone?

3.1 Historical Background

3.2 The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act

3.3 The Conflicts on GMO and BSE

3.4 Debate on ‘Therapeutic’ Cloning: How it all Began

3.5 Public Concerns versus Scientific Development: Loss of Public Trust

3.6 Let’s Consult the Public!

3.7 A New Problem: Britain is Seriously Ill or ‘Medical Progress with Responsibility’

3.8 A Question of Rights and Individual Moral Responsibility

3.9 Conclusion: ‘Great British Science’

4 Germany: The Debate on Embryo Protection

4.1 Historical Background

4.2 The German Embryo Protection Act: History and Content

4.3 Formation of an Anti-Bioethics Alliance: Problematising Bioethics Discourses

4.4 The Debate on Embryo Protection: Setting the Agenda

4.5 The ‘Years of Biopolitics’

4.6 Import Stem Cells Now! More Pressures

4.7 A Speaking Cure for Conflicts? The Institutionalisation of Discourse

4.8 Advisory Statements: The Status of the Embryo and Freedom of Research

4.9 Decision-Making Case by Case

4.10 Conclusion: Germany—A Struggle over Problematisations

Conclusion: Problematisation, Discourse Stimulation, and Ongoing ScientificResearch

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