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Author Benjamin, Ruha, author.

Title People's science : bodies and rights on the stem cell frontier / Ruha Benjamin
Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 249 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction : to the moon -- Locating biological citizenship -- Whose body politic? -- Eggs for sale -- Race for cures -- Depathologizing distrust -- Toward real utopias
Summary Stem cell research has sparked controversy and heated debate since the first human stem cell line was derived in 1998. Too frequently these debates devolve to simple judgments-good or bad, life-saving medicine or bioethical nightmare, symbol of human ingenuity or our fall from grace-ignoring the people affected. With this book, Ruha Benjamin moves the terms of debate to focus on the shifting relationship between science and society, on the people who benefit-or don't-from regenerative medicine and what this says about our democratic commitments to an equitable society. People's
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-226) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Stem cells -- Research -- Social aspects -- California
Stem cells -- Research -- Government policy -- California
Embryonic stem cells -- Research -- Social aspects -- California
Embryonic stem cells -- Research -- Government policy -- California
Medical policy -- Social aspects -- California
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
Medical policy -- Social aspects
California
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780804786737
0804786739