Overview
- Highlights central problems concerning the political regulation of biotechnologies
- Sheds new light on the role of religious organizations and actors in influencing bio-political debates
- Illustrates the bio-ethical debates over human embryonic research, cloning, and pre-implantation genetic diagnosis in fourteen Western democracies
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Introduction
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Catholic-Latin States with Low Level or Little Religious Pluralism
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Protestant(-English) States with High or Moderate Level Religious Pluralism
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Protestant(-Scandinavian) States with Low Level Religious Pluralism
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Mixed-Confession States with High Level Religious Pluralism
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About this book
The book offers a range of case studies on fourteen Western democracies, highlighting the bio-ethical and political debates over human stem cell research, therapeutic and reproductive cloning, and pre-implantation genetic diagnosis. The contributing authors illustrate the ways in which national political landscapes and actors from diverse and often fragmented moral communities with widely varying moral stances, premises and commitments formulate their bio-ethical positions and seek to influence political decisions.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Ulrich Willems is a professor of Political Theory and currently director of the Institute of Political Science of the University of Münster, Germany. He is also principal investigator at the Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics in Pre-modern and Modern Times". From 2012 to 2016, he was the director of the "Centre for Religion and Modernity" and a member of the "Centre for Advanced Studies in Bioethics" (2010-2017); both located at the University of Münster. Previously, Willems taught at the Darmstadt University of Technology and the University of Hamburg, Germany. His research interests include political theory, political pluralism, democracy and pluralism, interest groups, politics and religion, and morality policy, especially biopolitics. His recent books include The Political Theory of Modus Vivendi (with John Horton and Manon Westphal; Springer 2019) and Wertkonflikte als Herausforderung der Demokratie (Springer VS 2016).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Religion and Biopolitics
Editors: Mirjam Weiberg-Salzmann, Ulrich Willems
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14580-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-14579-8Published: 14 June 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-14582-8Published: 15 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-14580-4Published: 31 May 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 354
Topics: Comparative Politics, Bioethics, Sociology of Religion, Religion and Health, Public Policy, Biomedical Engineering/Biotechnology