One of the most pressing issues in the social sciences and in distributed artificial intelligence research is the micro-macro link that is the question of how individual action and social structure are interrelated. Besides others disciplines, sociological research has identified emotion as being a possible key component in this link. Unfortunately, sociological theories in question remain rela...

P re-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) is one of a number of new reproductive/ genetics technologies which have emerged since IVF became widely available. While new reproductive technologies in general have been the subject of sustained sociological interest, PGD initially attracted the attention of scholars from disciplinary backgrounds as diverse as anthropology, ethics, law and government...