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Summary, in English
Recent developments in the field of biomedicine do not only constitute a challenge for the health care systems of modern societies. They also have a profound impact on the core concepts of individual and collective life. The corresponding changes of individual and collective identities take place within the framework of different historically shaped national conditions and traditions. This leads to ways of dealing with biomedicine that vary between cultures and to different perspectives on chances and risks.
This interdisciplinary project aims at exploring the interrelation between socio-cultural conditions and ethical and legal arguments of medical research and practice. It poses the question to what extent concepts of identity on the cultural, bioethical and political level are influenced by biomedicine and, conversely, shape and regulate the medical practice themselves.
The socio-cultural background of modern biomedicine will be examined using a comparison of different European countries: Germany, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Austria and Cyprus. Moreover, data from Latvia and Great Britain will be taken into account selectively. The emphasis of the project lies on the question how laypeople and patients view modern medicine and live with it. Thus, the prevailing, expert-centred perspective on biomedicine and its ethical challenges will be elaborated upon. The interactions and interdependencies between medicine and culture will be analysed comparatively considering organ transplantation and postnatal genetic testing as examples.
This interdisciplinary project aims at exploring the interrelation between socio-cultural conditions and ethical and legal arguments of medical research and practice. It poses the question to what extent concepts of identity on the cultural, bioethical and political level are influenced by biomedicine and, conversely, shape and regulate the medical practice themselves.
The socio-cultural background of modern biomedicine will be examined using a comparison of different European countries: Germany, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Austria and Cyprus. Moreover, data from Latvia and Great Britain will be taken into account selectively. The emphasis of the project lies on the question how laypeople and patients view modern medicine and live with it. Thus, the prevailing, expert-centred perspective on biomedicine and its ethical challenges will be elaborated upon. The interactions and interdependencies between medicine and culture will be analysed comparatively considering organ transplantation and postnatal genetic testing as examples.
Department/s
Publishing year
2007
Language
Swedish
Pages
71-82
Publication/Series
ETN: etnologisk skriftserie
Volume
3
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
Etnologiska institutionen, Lunds universitet
Topic
- Ethnology
Keywords
- culture
- Transplantation
- genetic testing
- ethics
- religion
Status
Published
Project
- Challenges of Biomedicine – Socio-cultural contexts, European Governance and Bioethics (COB)
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 1653-1361