List of figures

List of tables

List of contributors

Series editor's preface

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

1 The comparative policy design perspective

MALCOLM L. GOGGIN, DEBORAH A. ORTH, IVAR BLEIKLIE AND CHRISTINE ROTHMAYR

2 ART policy in Belgium: a bioethical paradise?

NATHALIE SCHIFFINO AND FRLDLRIC VARONE

3 ART policy in Italy: explaining the lack of comprehensive regulation

CELINA RAMJOUÉ AND ULRICH KLOTI

4 Policy networks, federalism and managerial ideas: how ART non-decision in Canada safeguards the autonomy of the medical profession

ERIC MONTPETIT

5 The United states: national talk and state action in governing ART

MALCOLM L. GOGGIN AND DEBORAH A. ORTH

6 ART in Spain: technocratic inheritance and modernist aspirations

KULIEN DUBOUCHET AND ULRICH KLOTI

7 The United Kingdom: regulation through a national licensing authority

ROBERT H. BLANK

8 France: protecting human dignity while encouraging scientific progress

ISABELLE ENGELI

9 The Netherlands: conflict and consensus on ART policy

ARCO TIMMERMANS

10 Germany: ART policies as embryo protection

CHRISTINE ROTHMAYR AND CELINA RAMJOUE

11 Switzerland: policy design and direct democracy

CHRISTINE ROTHMAYR AND UWE SERDÜLT

12 Legislation for protection: why Norway designed restrictive policies in the field of ART

IVAR BLEIKLIE

13 Comparing policy design across countries: what accounts for variation in ART policy?

CHRISTINE ROTHMAYR, ERÉDÉRIC VARONE, UWE SERDULT, ARCO TIMMERMANS AND IVAR BLEIKLIE

Appendix

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