Embryo Politics: Ethics and Policy in Atlantic Democracies / Edition 1

ISBN-13: 9780801449574 Publisher: Cornell University Press Publication date: 05/15/2011 Pages: 304 Product dimensions: 6.20(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.10(d) Age Range: 18 Years Since the first fertilization of a human egg in the laboratory in 1968, scientific and technological breakthroughs have raised ethical dilemmas and generated policy controversies on both sides of the Atlantic. Embryo, stem cell, and cloning research have provoked impassioned political debate about their religious, moral, legal, and practical implications. National governments make rules that govern the creation, destruction, and use of embryos in the laboratory—but they do so in profoundly different ways.In Embryo Politics, Thomas Banchoff provides a comprehensive overview of political struggles aboutembryo research during four decades in four countries—the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and France. Banchoff's book, the first of its kind, demonstrates the impact of particular national histories and institut