What is the Preimplantation Embryo ?  

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Krones, Tanja ; Schluter, Elmar ; Neuwohner, Elke ; Ansari, Susan El ; Wissner, Thomas ; Richter, Gerd

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Social Science & Medicine (www.elsevier.com/locate/sosscimed) vol. 63 no. 1 (Jul. 2006), page 1-20.
Topik: EMBRYONIC FERTILIZATION; germany; status of the embryo; critical context sensitive bioethics

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We present results from our bioethical field studies, which explore and compare the views of experts, patients and the general public on the beginning of human life and the status of the preimplantation embryo in germany. Using a qualitative and quantitative multi method approach, we found crucial differences in the categorization of the beginning of human life within the expert group (repersentative samples of human geneticists n = 104, ethicists n = 168, midwives n = 294, obstetricians n = 147, paediatricians n = 166, and between expert and lay respondents as wel as paediatricians and obstetricians chose nidation, the moment when the implantation of the fertilized egg into the uterus takes place, as the crucial boundary that marks the beginning of huamn life, whereas the majority of female human geneticists, ethicists and midwives voted for conception as the decisive poin in time. The views of all groups on the status of the preimplantation embryo differed from the assumptions underlying german legislation (embryo protection act). Religiousness and religious affiliation, gender, attitudes towards disable people, post material values and a present desire for a child wereidentified as independent factors influencing attitudes towards the preimplantation embryo in the population sample. The results are discussed within a broader philosophical and social science perspective of constructivism versus essentialism, proposing a truly interdisciplinary approach to such bioethical core issues as new reproductive technologies and the status of the preimplantation embryo.

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