CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2010
| Author | Ban, Andrea |
|---|---|
| Title | Health Policy Making on Bioethics: Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Hungary |
| Summary | In my thesis I define how bioethics changed the conventional process of health policy making by the state: how ethical considerations may appear, how these considerations are perceived, what kind of procedural and professional needs as well as requirements emerge. Therefore I elaborate a framework on the role of experts in policy making on bioethics: why experts are involved in the policy making process and how differently the legislative process is framed due to this involvement of experts in policy making. I introduce the disciplinary fields of health policy making and bioethics, showing how bioethical questions shape health policy making towards an expert-based consultative process in the rational-political model of boundary organizations. Then I present assisted reproductive technologies and the ethical considerations arising by gamete and embryo donation and surrogacy. Finally, I present the case of the policy making process of the Hungarian 1997 Health Care Act. I scrutinize how the codification process was framed by the Government: the work and institutional framework of the Operative Codification Group and the Codification Committee based on interview done with the head of the Operative Codification Group. I analyze the legislative period of the Act by applying the method of content analysis. I argue that the wide ranging work of codification resulted in the slight number of changes during the legislative period due to the work of experts who were involved in the codification. I suggest that efficient health policy making on bioethics is done by experts. |
| Supervisor | Sandor, Judit |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2010/ban_andrea.pdf |
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