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Renewing the Stuff of Life : Stem Cells, Ethics, and Public Policy.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2007Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (322 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780199719440
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Renewing the Stuff of LifeDDC classification:
  • 616.02774
LOC classification:
  • QH588.S83C46 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. What Are Stem Cells? How Do They Function? What Might They Do? -- 2. The Search for New Sources of Pluripotent Stem Cells -- 3. The Moral Significance of Early Human Embryos in Secular Thought -- 4. The Moral Significance of Early Human Embryos in Religious Thought -- 5. Creating Human-Nonhuman Chimeras in Stem Cell Research -- 6. International Stem Cell Research and Research Cloning: Three Contrasting Approaches -- 7. The Development of National Policy on Stem Cell Research in the United States -- 8. In Pursuit of National Review and Oversight of Stem Cell Research in the United States -- Appendix A. NIH Guidelines for Funding of Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Research, August 25, 2000 -- Appendix B. Speech by President George W. Bush regarding Human Stem Cell Research, August 9, 2001 -- Appendix C. Withdrawal of NIH Guidelines for Research Using Human Pluripotent Stem Cells, November 2, 2001 -- Appendix D. NIH Criteria for Federal Funding of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells, November 7, 2001 -- Appendix E. President George W. Bush's Veto of the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2005, July 2006 -- Notes -- Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- Z -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Summary: In 1998 researchers learned how to isolate and culture embryonic stem cells, which are only obtainable through the destruction of human embryos. An ethical debate has raged since then about the ethics of this research, usually pitting pro-life advocates vs. those who see the great promise of curing some of humanity's most persistent diseases. In this important new book Cynthia Cohen agrees that we need to work toward a consensus on the issue of how we treat the embryo. But more broadly she claims that we need to transform and expand the ethical and policy debates on stem cells (both adult and embryonic). This important and much-needed book is both a primer and a means by which to understand the implications of this research.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. What Are Stem Cells? How Do They Function? What Might They Do? -- 2. The Search for New Sources of Pluripotent Stem Cells -- 3. The Moral Significance of Early Human Embryos in Secular Thought -- 4. The Moral Significance of Early Human Embryos in Religious Thought -- 5. Creating Human-Nonhuman Chimeras in Stem Cell Research -- 6. International Stem Cell Research and Research Cloning: Three Contrasting Approaches -- 7. The Development of National Policy on Stem Cell Research in the United States -- 8. In Pursuit of National Review and Oversight of Stem Cell Research in the United States -- Appendix A. NIH Guidelines for Funding of Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Research, August 25, 2000 -- Appendix B. Speech by President George W. Bush regarding Human Stem Cell Research, August 9, 2001 -- Appendix C. Withdrawal of NIH Guidelines for Research Using Human Pluripotent Stem Cells, November 2, 2001 -- Appendix D. NIH Criteria for Federal Funding of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells, November 7, 2001 -- Appendix E. President George W. Bush's Veto of the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2005, July 2006 -- Notes -- Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- Z -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

In 1998 researchers learned how to isolate and culture embryonic stem cells, which are only obtainable through the destruction of human embryos. An ethical debate has raged since then about the ethics of this research, usually pitting pro-life advocates vs. those who see the great promise of curing some of humanity's most persistent diseases. In this important new book Cynthia Cohen agrees that we need to work toward a consensus on the issue of how we treat the embryo. But more broadly she claims that we need to transform and expand the ethical and policy debates on stem cells (both adult and embryonic). This important and much-needed book is both a primer and a means by which to understand the implications of this research.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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