Stem Cell Dialogues : A Philosophical and Scientific Inquiry Into Medical Frontiers.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (280 pages)
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Annotated Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Harnessing Stem Cells for Regenerative Medicine -- Dialogue 1. Hope -- Dialogue 2. Why Is This Cell Different from Other Cells? -- Dialogue 3. The President's Stem Cells -- Dialogue 4. The Dickey-Wicker Enigma -- Dialogue 5. The Moral Status of Embryos -- Dialogue 6. Creating Good from Immoral Acts -- Dialogue 7. Circumventing Embryocide -- Dialogue 8. My Personalized Beta Cells for Diabetes -- Dialogue 9. Repairing Brain Cells in Stroke Victims -- Dialogue 10. Reversing Macular Degeneration -- Dialogue 11. My Stem Cells, My Cancer -- Dialogue 12. Reprogramming Cells -- Dialogue 13. My Personalized Disease Cells -- Dialogue 14. To Clone or Not to Clone: That Is the Question -- Dialogue 15. Patenting Human Embryonic Stem Cells Is Immoral and Illegal (in Europe) -- Dialogue 16. My Embryo Is Auctioned on the Internet -- Dialogue 17. Here Comes the Egg Man: Oocytes and Embryos.org -- Dialogue 18. Human-Animal Chimeras and Hybrids -- Dialogue 19. Stem Cell Tourism -- Dialogue 20. Social Media Meet Science Hype -- Dialogue 21. Feminism and the Commercialization of Human Eggs/Embryos -- Dialogue 22. Was My Birth Embryo Me? -- Dialogue 23. Embryos Without Ovaries -- Dialogue 24. My Cells Are Drugs -- Dialogue 25. A Clinical Trial for Paralysis Treatment -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Glossary -- Index.
A dramatic new way to explore controversial science: Socratic dialogues. These creative debates follow the nuances and complexities of stem cell research and emerging therapies for informed readers and newcomers alike.
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Embryonic stem cells - Research - Moral and ethical aspects.