Genetic Responsibility in Germany and Israel Practices of Prenatal Diagnosis

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2022
• Series: Bioethik / Medizinethik
• Subjects: Bioethics; Biopolitics; Body; Comparative Bioethics; Disability; Ethics; Family; Medical Ethics; Philosophy; Philosophy of Responsibility; Prenatal Testing; Reproductive Cultures; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology; thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBD Medical profession::MBDC Medical ethics and professional conduct; thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSA Life sciences: general issues::PSAD Bioethics
• Online Access: Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication; Open Access: DOAB, download the publication
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (380 p.)
• ISBN: 9783837659887; 9783839459881
• Access: Open Access

Prenatal diagnosis, especially noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT), has changed the experience of pregnancy, prenatal care and responsibilities in Israel and Germany in different ways. These differences reflect the countries' historical legacies, medico-legal policies, normative and cultural identities. Building on this observation, the contributors of this book present conversations between leading scholars from Israel and Germany based on an empirical bioethical perspective, analyses about the reshaping of 'life' by biomedicine, and philosophical reflections on socio-cultural claims and epistemic horizons of responsibilities. Practices and discussions of reproductive medicine transform the concepts of responsibility and irresponsibility.