Constructing embryos, constructing politics: Connecting politics and technology in the Netherlands and Germany

摘要: This article presents an innovative approach to interpreting and mending political discussions on sensitive medical-ethical issues. It adopts the idiom of co-production, which presumes that technological choices shape our world simultaneously, in turn cannot be seen apart from background they themselves help shape. By developing idea a nexus, this connection between practices is further conceptualized. Through analysis debates pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), describes constitution embryo two countries. In Germany, as full member human community. contrast, Netherlands largely invisible. difference connects radically divergent moral decisions, configurations arrangements. turn, these different reproduce particular constitutions embryo. The concludes about PGD gain transparency by breaking down relations into various levels. Each levels offers its own way see nexus politics science technology.