| Contents | 6 |
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| Acknowledgments | 10 |
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| Introduction | 12 |
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| Theoretical Framework | 22 |
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| 1 Public Policy Analysis: How to Approach Reprogenetics Policy Discourse? | 22 |
| 1.1 Interpretive Approaches to Policy Discourse | 24 |
| 1.2 Policy Analysis as Discourse Analysis | 31 |
| 1.3 Discourse Stimulation | 38 |
| 2 The Relation between Science, Technology, and Society | 45 |
| 2.1 From a Deficit Model to the Ethnographic Turn in Public Understanding of Science | 45 |
| 2.2 Towards more Participation and Integration of the Public in Science Policy | 49 |
| Policy Debates on Reprogenetics in Great Britain and Germany | 58 |
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| 3 Great Britain: To Clone or Not to Clone? | 59 |
| 3.1 Historical Background | 59 |
| 3.2 The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act | 60 |
| 3.3 The Conflicts on GMO and BSE | 64 |
| 3.4 Debate on ‘Therapeutic’ Cloning: How it all Began | 66 |
| 3.5 Public Concerns versus Scientific Development: Loss of Public Trust | 70 |
| 3.6 Let’s Consult the Public! | 86 |
| 3.7 A New Problem: Britain is Seriously Ill or ‘Medical Progress with Responsibility’ | 94 |
| 3.8 A Question of Rights and Individual Moral Responsibility | 105 |
| 3.9 Conclusion: ‘Great British Science’ | 118 |
| 4 Germany: The Debate on Embryo Protection | 122 |
| 4.1 Historical Background | 123 |
| 4.2 The German Embryo Protection Act: History and Content | 129 |
| 4.3 Formation of an Anti-Bioethics Alliance: Problematising Bioethics Discourses | 136 |
| 4.4 The Debate on Embryo Protection: Setting the Agenda | 143 |
| 4.5 The ‘Years of Biopolitics’ | 156 |
| 4.6 Import Stem Cells Now! More Pressures | 168 |
| 4.7 A Speaking Cure for Conflicts? The Institutionalisation of Discourse | 174 |
| 4.8 Advisory Statements: The Status of the Embryo and Freedom of Research | 189 |
| 4.9 Decision-Making Case by Case | 199 |
| 4.10 Conclusion: Germany—A Struggle over Problematisations | 202 |
| Conclusion: Problematisation, Discourse Stimulation, and Ongoing ScientificResearch | 205 |
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| Abbreviations | 216 |
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| References | 218 |