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More copies of this ISBNThis title in other editionsReasons of Conscience: The Bioethics Debate in Germanyby Stefan Sperling
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:The implicit questions that inevitably underlie German bioethics are the same ones that have pervaded all of German public life for decades: How could the Holocaust have happened? And how can Germans make sure that it will never happen again? In Reasons of Conscience, Stefan Sperling considers the bioethical debates surrounding embryonic stem cell research in Germany at the turn of the twenty-first century, highlighting how the country’s ongoing struggle to come to terms with its past informs the decisions it makes today. Sperling brings the reader unmatched access to the offices of the German parliament to convey the role that morality and ethics play in contemporary Germany. He describes the separate and interactive workings of the two bodies assigned to shape German bioethics—the parliamentary Enquiry Commission on Law and Ethics in Modern Medicine and the executive branch’s National Ethics Council—tracing each institution’s genesis, projected image, and operations, and revealing that the content of bioethics cannot be separated from the workings of these institutions. Sperling then focuses his discussion around three core categories—transparency, conscience, and Germany itself—arguing that without fully considering these, we fail to understand German bioethics. He concludes with an assessment of German legislators and regulators’ attempts to incorporate criteria of ethical research into the German Stem Cell Law. About the AuthorStefan Sperling has taught at Harvard University, Humboldt University of Berlin, and Deep Springs College in California. He lives in Stanford, California. Table of ContentsPretext Building, Bildung The Visible Public Sphere Creating Readers Normativity—Look It Up! Grappling with Bioethics 1 A Tale of Two Commissions Two Ethical Visions Building an Ethical Imperative—The Ethics Lag Veilings and Unveilings New Kanzler, New Kanzleramt Parliamentary Ethics—The Enquete Kommission New Ethics—The Nationaler Ethikrat Looking Back—The Enquete Kommission in History Looking Around—The EK and the NER Can the Nationaler Ethikrat Be Ethical? Ethics Commissions as Saalordner “This Is Not Bioethics”—“Bioethics Is a Dirty Word” The Bundestag Comes to Life—Sternstunde des Parlaments Conclusions 2 Disciplining Disorder Learning to See the Right Things Becoming an Ethical Insider The First Day Ethics Made Transparent First Impressions A Place for Disability Dienstweg Du und Sie—More Ways of Creating Insider-ness Writing Bioethics Grammar of Democracy “What Are the Ethical Aspects of Organ Transplantation?” Translation—The Semi-Legitimate Outsider Attempts to Produce a Legitimate Text Glossary—Marking Science, Unmarking Law The Beginning of Life Conflict of Objectivities Paper Wars A Visit to the Media The Nationaler Ethikrat Goes Public Karlsruhe—Merging Law and Art The Last Day of the Commission Rules, and Rules on Following Rules Leaving the Field—An Outsider Again 3 Transparent Fictions Toward an Ethnography of Transparency Transparency Today Crafting Citizens through Bildung Democracy Made Transparent at the German Hygiene Museum Place—A Pedagogical Training Ground Participants—Who Are the Citizens? Process—Education in Citizenship The Citizens Speak, but Have Not Heard Clearly Expert Reactions Conclusions 4 Conscientious Objections Constitutions of Glass—Transparent, or Merely Fragile? Constituting Conscience Kants Conscience Native Theories of Conscience—Kant as Germanys Moral Gold Standard Public and Private Reason Beamte—Delegated Conscience Then and Now Tortured Conscience Conscience and Resistance Conscientious Objectors Conscientious Abortions Constraints on Conscience Conclusions 5 A Failed Experiment Abwicklung und Aufarbeitung One Volk, One History?—Writing History Together Making East Germany Transparent—And Seeing an Unrechtsstaat Obsessive Transparency Transparency on Display—The Stasi in Museums Learning to See Themselves as Victims How German Was It? Mauerschützen—Suspending the Rechtsstaat/Erasing East German Conscience Abortion East Germany in the Enquete Kommission Recht und Ethik Bioethics and the East German Public Sphere Coda—A Very Private Place 6 Stem Cells, Interrupted Ethical Imports at Last “No Embryo Shall Die for German Research” Ethics Becomes Law Converting Ethics into Reason Reading the Law The Cutoff Date—An Unenforceable Line Prohibited yet Permitted Ethical German Research The ZES and the RKI Reconfigure Science and Ethics Inside the ZES Jürgen Hescheler Wolfgang Franz Conclusion Reading Borges, Reading Germany Transparency—Text and Context Potentialities—Setting Limits as an Ethical Act Taboo—Dammbruch Law and Memory—Recht und Unrecht Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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