Legalising Mitochondrial Donation

Enacting Ethical Futures in UK Biomedical Politics

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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Beskrivning

They draw on stakeholder accounts and public documents to explore how patients, professionals, institutions and publics mobilised within ‘for’ and ‘against’ clusters, engaging in extensive promissory, emotional, bureaucratic, ethical, embodied and clinical labour to justify competing visions of an ethical future.

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Utgivningsdatum:2018-04-03
Mått:148 x 210 x 17 mm
Vikt:342 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:147
Upplaga:18001
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783319746449

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Rebecca Dimond is a medical sociologist at Cardiff University, UK. Her research interests include patient and family narratives, the classification of genetic syndromes, new medical technologies, and the sociology of donation.Neil Stephens is a sociologist and Science and Technology Studies scholar at Brunel University London, UK. His research interests include embryo politics, tissue engineering, and robotic surgery.

Innehållsförteckning

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.