| Description |
1 online resource (xxx, 486 pages) |
| Contents |
Foreword / Thomas H. Murray -- Contested cells: global perspectives on the stem cell debate -- a critical introduction / Benjamin Capps and Alastair V. Campbell -- A case study of experimental stem cell therapy and the risks of over-regulation / Anthony Hollander -- Stem cell technology: from research regulation to clinical applications / Donald Chalmers -- Legal imperialism in the regulation of stem cell research and therapy: the problem of extraterritorial jurisdiction / Daniela Cutas and Christian Munthe -- Governing cloning: United Nations' debates and the institutional context of standards / W. Calvin Ho -- Sociological reflections on ethics, embryonic stem cells and translational research / Claire Williams and Steven Wainwright -- Rhetoric, power and legitimacy in public discourse: a critical analysis of the public debate surrounding the review of embryo research and cloning legislation in Australia in 2005 / Tamra Lysaght and Ian Kerridge -- New developments in stem cell science: iPS cells and the challenge to consent / Jonathan Mackenney and Benjamin Capps -- 'Reasonable suffering': the application of stem cell technologies to non-human animals / James Yeates -- Ontological status of human-non-human embryonic chimeras / Josef Kur̆e -- Religion, civic virtue and the stem cell debate / Teoh Chin Leong -- Rejuvenated federalism: state-based stem cell research policy / Geoffrey Lomax -- Hybrid embryos -- ethics, law and rhetoric in the United Kingdom's stem cell policy / Natasha Hammond-Browning and Søren Holm -- Stem cell research and its clinical application in China: interactions between science, ethics and society / Renzong Qiu and Xiaomei Zhai -- Neither a 'person' nor a 'thing': the controversy concerning the moral and legal status of human embryos in Japan / Satoshi Kodama and Akira Akabayashi -- A tale of two countries: Czech and Slovak stem cell biopolicies / Peter Sýkora |
| Summary |
This book is an edited collection of linked essays on the moral description, understanding, and evaluation of values within the regional (e.g. Europe, North America and Asia) and global setting in stem cell science. Themes include the potential value in finding and affirming common ethical norms; the possibility of compromise in reaching ethical consensus (or agreement) in stem cell science (this is a topic which concerns so-called procedural ethics, jurisprudence, and political philosophy in ethical debate); and the benefits, dangers and goals of assenting to a global/regional ethic. There is |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Stem cells.
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Bioethics.
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Bioethical Issues
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Cloning, Organism -- legislation & jurisprudence
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Stem Cell Research -- legislation & jurisprudence
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Stem Cells
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MEDICAL -- Research.
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Bioethics
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Stem cells
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Capps, Benjamin J
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Campbell, Alastair V
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| ISBN |
9781848164383 |
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1848164386 |
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