A speaking cure for conflicts : problematization, discourse stimulation and the ongoing of scientific 'progress'
By: HERRMANN, Svea Luise
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ArticlePublisher: Oxon : Routledge, oct. 2010Subject(s): Pesquisa Científica | Políticas Públicas | Genética | Debate | Análise Comparativa | Inglaterra | AlemanhaCritical Policy Studies 4, 3, p. 278-296Abstract: Embryonic stem cell research and research cloning are issues of great public and political conflict in many countries. The author of this study analyses whether public ethical debates on these issues in Great Britain and Germany provided the grounds for societal control and political governance of the development of science. She concludes that 'ethical debates' did not counter a commitment to scientific 'progress'. On the contrary, in both countries public discourse, especially a discourse in terms of 'ethics', was a medium in which an imperative of scientific progress, on the one hand, and concerns about, or opposition to, scientific endeavor, on the other, could coexist. 'Ethical' problematizations of these issues created a discursive space for the articulation of anxiety or conflicts and the formation of an 'ethical viewpoint, without, however, challenging an imperative of scientific 'progress'
Embryonic stem cell research and research cloning are issues of great public and political conflict in many countries. The author of this study analyses whether public ethical debates on these issues in Great Britain and Germany provided the grounds for societal control and political governance of the development of science. She concludes that 'ethical debates' did not counter a commitment to scientific 'progress'. On the contrary, in both countries public discourse, especially a discourse in terms of 'ethics', was a medium in which an imperative of scientific progress, on the one hand, and concerns about, or opposition to, scientific endeavor, on the other, could coexist. 'Ethical' problematizations of these issues created a discursive space for the articulation of anxiety or conflicts and the formation of an 'ethical viewpoint, without, however, challenging an imperative of scientific 'progress'
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