Between Ethical Oversight and State Neutrality Introducing Controversial Technologies into the Public Healthcare Systems of Germany, Italy and England

• Main Author: Domenici, Irene (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Baden-Baden Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG 2023
• Series: Studien aus dem Max-Planck-Institut für Sozialrecht und Sozialpolitik 79
• Subjects: LAM; MBQ; LNTJ; biomedical law; biotechnology law; ethics oversight; noninvasive prenatal testing; preimplantation genetic diagnosis; health care system
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Introducing ethically controversial (bio)technologies into the public healthcare system inevitably provokes societal and legal conflict. While it is often argued that these choices ought to comply with moral standards, the consideration of ethical and religious concerns raises a serious problem of l...