Thesis
Human reproductive cloning in Australian public policy debate : a critical realist exploration of attitudes and their justifications
Southern Cross University
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Southern Cross University
2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.25918/thesis.6
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Abstract
This research provides a Critical Realist analysis of attitudes to human reproductive cloning (HRC), and their justifications, expressed during Australian public policy debates culminating in 2002 and 2006, resulting in, and confirming prohibition of HRC. Analysis of literature, government records, and interviews identified historical attitudes to HRC; causally significant valuings of HRC; and extended Boltanski and Thévenot’s (1999/2006) Economies of Worth theory by describing a World of Diversity. Finally, the morphostatic significance of the technical valuing of HRC, which dominated other valuings, indicated that medico-scientists were implicitly vested with the power to declare whether HRC might be introduced as a reproductive technology in Australia.
Details
- Title
- Human reproductive cloning in Australian public policy debate : a critical realist exploration of attitudes and their justifications
- Creators
- Robert G Lingard
- Contributors
- Angela Coco (Supervisor) - Southern Cross UniversityRobert Paul Weatherby (Supervisor) - Southern Cross University
- Awarding Institution
- Southern Cross University; Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
- Theses
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Southern Cross University
- Publisher
- Southern Cross University
- Number of pages
- xiii, 493 pages
- Identifiers
- 991012855300502368
- Copyright
- Copyright R Lingard 2019
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Business, Law and Arts; Humanities; School of Arts and Social Sciences
- Resource Type
- Thesis