Nikolaus Knoepffler is Chair of Applied Ethics at the University of Jena, Germany. Dagmar Schipanski is Minister of Science, Research, and Art in Thuringia, Germany. Stefan Lorenz Sorgner is Lecturer in Philosophy and Applied Ethics at the University of Jena, Germany.

’This collection of essays is a significant and original contribution to the public debate on the topic and its ethical and social ramifications.’ Human Reproduction and Genetic Ethics

• Contents: Foreword; The Wartburg conference project: human biotechnology as a challenge to society, Stefan Lorenz Sorgner; Part I Science: Research on human embryos?, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard; The potential of stem cells, Hans R. Schöler. Part II Law: Human biotechnology, transculturality, globalization and symbolic (criminal) law, Carlos María Romeo Casabona; Human biotechnology as a legal challenge, Jürgen Simon. Part III The Church: Human biotechnology as a social challenge, Christoph Kähler; Ethical and theological challenges to human biotechnology: observations from the perspective of Catholic theology Joachim Wanke. Part IV Philosophical and Theological Ethics: Human dignity as a regulatory principle of bioethics, Reiner Anselm; Tolerance and respect in bioethical conflicts, Nikolaus Knoepffler; Human biotechnology as an ethical and social challenge, Julian Nida-Rümelin; Bioethics between physis and nomos, Gianni Vattimo. Part V Society: On the responsibility of the scientist, Dagmar Schipanski; Social responsibility in view of new possibilities in human biology, Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker; Glossary; Indexes.