Ethics, Law, and Theology—Reproductive Technologies in Poland

Authors

  • Susanne Lettow Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen/Wien

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14766/417

Keywords:

Ethik, Osteuropa und Russland, Recht, Schwangerschaft /Reproduktion, Theologie, Geschlecht, Gender

Abstract

In Germany, the hitherto existing debates on stem-cell research, cloning, and reproductive technologies were carried out for the most part in the governmental setting and with developments in the Anglo-Saxon realm in mind. However, these research directions and technologies are by no means a genuinely “western” phenomenon—after all, the first “test-tube baby” was born in Poland as early as 1987. Heidi Hofmann’s book provides Polish philosophers, lawyers, and politicians with a platform to be heard. She thus makes it possible for readers to understand that the ways in which reproductive technologies are problematized in society are affected by very different political, cultural, and historical constellations in Poland than in Germany.

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Published

2006-03-08

Issue

No. 18 (2006): Biografik – Lebensgeschichten

Section

Offener Teil

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