ABSTRACT
This book may bring the saying to mind: ‘If you have a lot of trees before you, you cannot see the forest for the trees’. Perhaps to see the forest you need distance and a higher point of view on a philosophical mountain. The following remarks try to concentrate the very rich and manifold perspectives in this book on infertility, indications for in vitro fertilisation (IVF), success rates, multifetal pregnancies, embryo destiny and embryo status, IVF-psychology, freedom and participation of patients, on legal diversity and consensus in Europe, on misuse and limits, on crucial questions about human dignity and nature as criteria, on the special problems of intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) and preimplantation diagnosis (PID). In view of all these different aspects I would like to point out some main questions: Is there a common language for interdisciplinary discourse? – and if it is philosophy, what kind of philosophy? What are the main contested points?
