Table of Contents:
  • The comparative policy design perspective
  • Belgium : a bioethical paradise?
  • ART policy in Italy : explaining the lack of comprehensive regulation
  • Policy networks, federalism and managerial ideas : how ART non-decision in Canada safeguards the autonomy of the medical profession
  • The United States : national talk and state action in governing ART
  • ART in Spain : technocratic inheritance and modernist aspirations
  • United Kingdom : regulation through a national licensing authority
  • France : protecting human dignity while encouraging scientific progress
  • The Netherlands : conflict and consensus on assisted reproductive technology policy
  • Germany : ART policies as embryo protection
  • Switzerland : policy design and direct democracy
  • Legislation for protection : why Norway designed restrictive policies in the field of ART
  • Comparing policy design across countries : what accounts for variation in art policy?