Legalising Mitochondrial Donation Enacting Ethical Futures in UK Biomedical Politics /

• Main Authors: Dimond, Rebecca (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Stephens, Neil (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Social medicine.; Bioethics.; History.; Social policy.; Philosophy.; Medical Sociology.; History of Science.; Social Policy.; Philosophy of Technology.

In 2015 the UK became the first country in the world to legalise mitochondrial donation, a controversial germ line reproductive technology to prevent the transmission of mitochondrial disease. Dimond and Stephens track the intense period of scientific and ethical review, public consultation and parl...