1st Edition
The Regulation of Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Europe Variation, Convergence and Trends
0. Introduction
Erich Griessler and Lenka Slepičková
Chapter 1. Emerging from standstill: Austria’s transition from restrictive to intermediate ART policies
Erich Griessler and Florian Winkler
Chapter 2. Assisted reproduction in the Czech Republic
Lenka Slepičková
Chapter 3. Taming Technology: Assisted reproduction in Denmark
Janne Rothmar Herrmann
Chapter 4. A Regulatory Jungle: The Law on Assisted Reproduction in Germany
Sven Geyken
Chapter 5. Assisted procreation in Italy: a long and winding road
Ines Corti
Chapter 6. Avoiding ideological debate. Assisted reproduction regulation in the Netherlands
Heleen Weyers and Nicolle Zeegers
Chapter 7. IVF in Poland: From political debates to biomedical practices
Anna Krawczak and Magdalena Radkowska-Walkowicz
Chapter 8. From safeguarding the best interest of the child to equal treatment. Legislating assisted reproductive techniques in Sweden
Anna Singer
Chapter 9. Expectations regarding the convergence of domestic laws on ART
Heleen Weyers
Chapter 10. What drives the politicization of ART in Western and Northern European countries?
Nicolle Zeegers
Chapter 11. Regulating change in human procreation. Value changes and imaginaries of Assisted Reproductive Technologies in eight European countries
Erich Griessler
Biography
Erich Griessler is a sociologist and head of the research group "Science, Technology and Social Transformation" at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS), Vienna, Austria. His research interests focus on the social, ethical and legal aspects of life sciences, including genetic testing, assisted reproductive technologies and xenotransplantation as well as responsibility and participation in research and innovation.
Lenka Slepičková is a sociologist working at the Olomouc University Social Health Institute, Moravia, Czech Republic. Her research interests focus on the fields of health, illness and medicine in connection with reproduction and family, inclusion, marginalization and stigmatization.
Heleen Weyers is a researcher at the Department of Transboundary Legal Studies of the Faculty of Law, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Her research is focused on the coming into being of law (politics), its effects (sociology of law) and the relation between the two.
Florian Winkler is a junior researcher in the research group "Science, Technology and Social Transformation" at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, Austria. His research is mainly focused on controversial technologies (such as solar geoengineering, surrogacy or DNA-phenotyping) and the societal processes around them.
Nicolle Zeegers is Assistant Professor in Political Science at the Department of Transboundary Legal Studies, Faculty of Law, University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Her research interests include prostitution, assisted reproductive technology and other morality issues in a comparative law and governance perspective.
