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Research on Bioethics, Gabriele Werner-Felmayer, Institute of Biological Chemistry, Biocenter, Medical University of Innsbruck
Based upon interdisciplinary dialogues with colleagues from philosophy, social and political science, medical law, economics and health management, we focus on epistemology and culture in biomedicine as well as its ethical dimensions. Special emphasis is placed upon the concepts of hope and promise in genomics, medically assisted reproduction and stem cell research. Current projects deal with international regulation of assisted reproductive technologies, with third party cross-border reproductive care, with unintended traumatization of patients in the context of medicalised reproduction, and with prevailing determinist views in the dynamic field of genetics/genomics that are particularly powerful in marketing personal genetic/genomic services. PhD projects deal with the ethics of reprogenetics in developing countries and with the definition of
“race” in pharmacogenomics.