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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
Bioethics and the Global Moral Economy: The Cultural Politics of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Science
Beteiligte:
Salter, Brian;
Salter, Charlotte
Erschienen:
Sage Publications, 2007
Erschienen in:Science, Technology, & Human Values
Sprache:
Englisch
ISSN:
0162-2439;
1552-8251
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Beschreibung:
<p>The global development of human embryonic stem cell (HESC) science and its therapeutic applications are dependent on the nature of its engagement at national and international levels with key cultural values and beliefs concerning the moral status of the early human embryo. This article argues that the political need to reconcile the promise of new health technologies with the cultural costs of scientific advance, dependent in this case on the use of the human embryo, has been met by the evolution of bioethics as a political community, transnational network, and bureaucratic device. Bioethics has become the political means for the creation of a global moral economy where the trading and exchange of values is normalized and legitimated. As a result of such trading, value compromises are produced capable of legitimizing the regulatory policies necessary for maintaining public trust in the new science.</p>