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...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Mitochondrial donation and UK biomedical politics
• 2. Contesting mitochondrial donation: the cluster for
• 3. Contesting mitochondrial donation: the cluster against
• 4. Policy work and legitimacy at Nuffield Council on Bioethics, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, and the Department of Health
• 5. Campaigning: contested meanings, patient-families, and last minute labours
• 6. The parliamentary debates
• 7. Enacting ethical futures.