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Given the profound moral-ethical controversies regarding the use of new biotechnologies in medical research and treatment, such as embryonic research and cloning, this book sheds new light on the role of religious organizations and actors in influencing the bio-political debates and decision-making processes. Further, it analyzes the ways in which religious traditions and actors formulate their bio-ethical positions and which rationales they use to validate their positions. 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. .

Freedom of religion --- Comparative politics. --- Bioethics. --- Religion and sociology. --- Health-Religious aspects. --- Public policy. --- Biomedical engineering. --- Comparative Politics. --- Sociology of Religion. --- Religion and Health. --- Public Policy. --- Biomedical Engineering/Biotechnology. --- Clinical engineering --- Medical engineering --- Bioengineering --- Biophysics --- Engineering --- Medicine --- Religion and society --- Religious sociology --- Society and religion --- Sociology, Religious --- Sociology and religion --- Sociology of religion --- Sociology --- Biology --- Biomedical ethics --- Life sciences --- Life sciences ethics --- Science --- Comparative political systems --- Comparative politics --- Government, Comparative --- Political systems, Comparative --- Political science --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Health—Religious aspects. --- Comparative government.

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Given the profound moral-ethical controversies regarding the use of new biotechnologies in medical research and treatment, such as embryonic research and cloning, this book sheds new light on the role of religious organizations and actors in influencing the bio-political debates and decision-making processes. Further, it analyzes the ways in which religious traditions and actors formulate their bio-ethical positions and which rationales they use to validate their positions. 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. .

Professional ethics. Deontology --- Religious studies --- Sociology of religion --- Sociology of health --- Sociology --- Political systems --- Economic policy and planning (general) --- Human biochemistry --- Hygiene. Public health. Protection --- medische biochemie --- religie --- sociologie --- gezondheid --- politiek --- godsdienst --- bio-ethiek --- medische ethiek