Nature, morality, and ideology
- Autores: Dorijan Kerzan
- Localización: Quaderns-e, ISSN-e 1696-8298, Nº. 12, 2008
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
New reproductive technologies and biotechnology are challenging many common facts about nature. Various forms of assisted conception can change the understanding of a family, parenthood, personhood, and personal identity. Based on interviews with physicians and other professionals at a fertility clinic, the particular understanding of �natural technologies� is discussed. The idea of �natural technology,� or technology that imitates nature was a powerful argument when the family and parenthood were debated some years ago in Slovenia, when new legislation on assisted reproduction was adopted. This paper shows that nature and culture can no longer be defined in separate discourses. Cultural and natural facts are increasingly becoming fluid, and even a matter of negotiation. Therefore, it is perhaps necessary to abandon those concepts as separate entities and observe them as a single concept seen from different viewpoints.
