Differing Routes to Stem Cell Research: Germany and Italy.

Edited by Hans-Jörg Rheinberger Edited by Renato G. Mazzolini

Book cover: Differing Routes to Stem Cell Research: Germany and Italy.

Extent: 271 pages

Publisher: Duncker & Humblot

Series: Annali dell'Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento / Jahrbuch des italienisch-deutschen historischen Instituts in Trient. Contributi / Beiträge

Series volume number: 26

Language: English

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(May 2012)

ISBN: 9783428138494

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Stem cells have been in the center of a heated biomedical and biopolitical debate in the first decade of the new millennium. Ethical concerns prevailed. The present volume follows the controversial discussions on stem cells in Italy and Germany, respectively, over the past 15 years. It aims at an assessment of the situation, and its method is comparative. The first part of the book takes a step back and sheds light on the early history of views on stem cells and on cellular reprogramming from the middle of the nineteenth to the end of the twentieth century. Part two and three have a close look on the recent developments in Germany and in Italy from three different viewpoints: the state of the art in scientific research, the public debate on its perceived promises and dangers, and the political and legal regulations that followed. It turns out that, despite their cultural and geographical vicinity, there are significant national differences in the discursive and juridical strategies followed in both European countries.

INTRODUCTION

Renato G. Mazzolini
The Weight of the Past

Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
A Revolution in Biology?

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES

Ariane Dröscher
Where Does Stem Cell Research Stem from? A Terminological Analysis of the First Ninety Years

Christina Brandt
Stem Cells, Reversibility and Reprogramming: Historical Perspectives

THE GERMAN CASE

Alexandra Schwarzkopf
The Public Debate on Stem Cells Research in Germany. «Und bloß kein Dammbruch» / «For Heaven's Sake Avoid a Breach of the Dam»

Jochen Taupitz
Legal Developments in Stem Cell Research in Germany
Appendix: The German Law

Anna M. Wobus and Peter Löser
Stem Cell Research in Germany with Specific Regard to Human Embryonic Stem Cells

THE ITALIAN CASE

Lorenzo Beltrame
Embedding Society in Cells: Science, Ethics and Politics in the Italian Public Debate on Stem Cell Research

Giuseppe Testa
Stem Cells and the Structuring of the Italian Biopolity

Luca Marini
Stem Cells: The Italian Way to Bioethics

Index of Names

  • Edited by Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
  • Edited by Renato G. Mazzolini

»[A] very welcome comparison of scientific and bioethical trajectories. [...] they raise several interesting questions, at the national level as well as in constructing a more ›global‹ history of stem cell research. Furthermore, the diversity is in itself an important starting point for future research, confronting students with a multidimensional knowledge space to be explored from several possible approaches.« Mauro Capocci, in: The British Journal for the History of Science, Vol. 47, Issue 4/2014
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