Legalising Mitochondrial Donation Enacting Ethical Futures in UK Biomedical Politics /

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Dimond, Rebecca (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Stephens, Neil (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: 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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.