Silke Schicktanz

Jörg Naumann

Das Buch bietet einen Überblick über die Umsetzung des dänischen Modells der Konsensus-Konferenz in Deutschland am Beispiel der Gendiagnostik und beleuchtet die praktischen, wissenschaftlichen und gesellschaftlichen Aspekte der Bürgerbeteiligung in der Bioethik-Debatte. Das Deutsche Hygiene-Museum veranstaltete im Herbst 2001 die erste bundesweite Bürgerkonferenz: Streitfall Gendiagnostik. Eine 19-köpfige Bürgergruppe verfasste über einen mehrwöchigen Meinungsbildungsprozess ein gemeinsames Votum zu den Chancen und Risiken der Gendiagnostik. In dem Buch werden die inhaltlichen Ergebnisse dieses Verfahrens der partizipativen Technikfolgenabschätzung präsentiert und im Kontext der aktuellen Bioethik-Debatte diskutiert. Darüber hinaus werden grundlegende Erkenntnisse zum Ablauf, der Methodik und der begleitenden Evaluation vorgestellt.

Ein Modellprojekt der Bürgerbeteiligung am bioethischen Diskurs

Bürgerkonferenz: Streitfall Gendiagnostik

Sayani Mitra

Tulsi Patel

This book is the first to bring together an interdisciplinary collection of essays on surrogacy and egg donation from three socially, legally and culturally distinct countries - India, Israel and Germany. It presents contributions from experts in the field of social and cultural sciences, bioethics, law as well as psychology and provides critical-reflective comparative analysis of the socio-ethical factors shaping surrogacy and egg donation practices across these three countries. This book highlights the importance of a comparative perspective to ‘make sense’ of controversies and transitions in this highly contested area of artificial reproductive technologies. It demonstrates how local developments cannot be isolated from global events and vice versa. Therefore, this volume can be used as a standard reference for anyone seeking to understand surrogacy and egg donation from a macro-perspective in the next decade.

Interdisciplinary Perspectives from India, Germany and Israel

Cross-Cultural Comparisons on Surrogacy and Egg Donation

Frank Adloff

Kai Brauer

Mark Schweda

Larissa Pfaller

This book examines the relevance of modern medicine and healthcare in shaping the lives of elderly persons and the practices and institutions of ageing societies. Combining individual and social dimensions, Planning Later Life discusses the ethical, social, and political consequences of increasing life expectancies and demographic change in the context of biomedicine and public health. By focusing on the field of biomedicine and healthcare, the authors engage readers in a dialogue on the ethical and social implications of recent trends in dementia research and care, advance healthcare planning, or the rise of anti-ageing medicine and prevention. Bringing together the largely separated debates of individualist bioethics on the one hand, and public health ethics on the other, the volume deliberately considers the entanglements of envisioning, evaluating, and controlling individual and societal futures. So far, the process of devising and exploring the various positive and negative visions and strategies related to later life has rarely been reflected systematically from a philosophical, sociological, and ethical point of view. As such, this book will be crucial to those working and studying in the life sciences, the humanities, and the social sciences, particularly in the areas of bioethics, social work, gerontology and aging studies, healthcare and social service, sociology, social policy, and geography and population studies.

Bioethics and Public Health in Ageing Societies

Planning Later Life

Barbara Prainsack

Gabriele Werner-Felmayer

Recent debate about the ethical and regulatory dimensions of developments in genetics has sidelined societal and cultural aspects, which arguably are indispensable for a nuanced understanding of the complexities of the topic. Regulatory and ethical debates benefit from taking seriously this ’third dimension’ of culture, which often determines the configurations and limits of the space within which scientific, ethical and legal debate can take place. To fill this gap, this volume brings together contributions exploring the mutual relationships between genetics, markets, societies and identities in genetics and genomics. It draws upon the recent transdisciplinary debate on how socio-cultural factors influence understandings of ’genetics2.0' and shows how individual and collective identities are challenged or reinforced by cultural meanings and practices of genetics. This book will become a standard reference for everyone seeking to make sense of the controversies and shifts in the field of genetics in the second decade of the twenty-first century.

Transdisciplinary Views on Science and Culture

Genetics as Social Practice

Annette Leibing

The conceptualization of dementia has changed dramatically in recent years with the claim that, through early detection and by controlling several risk factors, a prevention of dementia is possible. Although encouraging and providing hope against this feared condition, this claim is open to scrutiny. This volume looks at how this new conceptualization ignores many of the factors which influence a dementia sufferers’ prognosis, including their history with education, food and exercise as well as their living in different epistemic cultures. The central aim is to question the concept of prevention and analyze its impact on aging people and aging societies.

Critical Perspectives on a New Paradigm of Preparing for Old Age

Preventing Dementia?

Silke Schicktanz

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