Legalising Mitochondrial Donation Enacting Ethical Futures in UK Biomedical Politics /

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...

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Main Author: Dimond, Rebecca (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Subjects:
Social medicine.
Bioethics.
History.
Social policy.
Philosophy.
ISBN:9783319746456
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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.

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