Changing Minds About Embryo Research  

Oleh:

Mulkay, Michael

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Public Understanding of Science vol. 3 no. 2 (Apr. 1994), page 195-213.
Fulltext: 195PUS32.pdf (1.12MB)

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Documentary sources are used to examine the parliamentary evaluation of scientific research on human embryos which took place in Britain during the 1980s. Evidence is presented to show that there was a major change in the balance of opinion in the course of the long sequence of debates which ended with the passage of he Human Fertilization and Embryology Act in 1990. It is suggested that there was a pronounced movement in favour of embryo research which was associated with a significant alteration in the social relationships between scientists and Members of Parliament and with a marked change in the way in which embryo research came to be morally justified. It is argued that the negotiations over embryo research in Parliament contributed to the clarification of the moral boundaries within which such research was to be confined and lo the establishment of social mechanisms designed to maintain the integrity of these boundaries.

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