Sabine Könninger
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Publisher
transcript Verlag
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
How do national ethics committees establish themselves as a solution to medicinal and technological controversies? A provocative study on the genealogy of ethics policies.
Nationale Ethikkomitees gelten als adäquate Lösung für ethische Probleme lebenswissenschaftlicher - und zunehmend auch nanotechnologischer - Entwicklungen. Aber wann, wie und in welchem Kontext setzten sich diese Ethikpolitiken durch? Und wogegen?Diesen Fragen geht Sabine Könninger...
Publisher
transcript Verlag
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Prenatal diagnosis, especially noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT), has changed the experience of pregnancy, prenatal care and responsibilities in Israel and Germany in different ways. These differences reflect the countries' historical legacies, medico-legal policies, normative and cultural identities. Building on this observation, the contributors of this book present conversations between leading scholars from Israel and Germany based on an empirical...