Description |
1 online resource (viii, 186 pages) |
Series |
Philosophy and medicine ; v. 102 |
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Philosophy and medicine ; v. 102.
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Contents |
Part I Introduction -- Introduction: regenerative medicine at the heart of the culture wars / King-Tak Ip -- Part II Prospect of Being Posthuman: the metaphysical roots of the moral contoversies -- Regenerative medicine after humanism: puzzles regarding the use of embryonic stem cells, germ-line genetic engineering, and the immanent pursuit of human flourishing / H. Tristram Englehardt -- Genetic manipulation and the resurrection body / Robert Song -- Secular humanist bioethics and regenerative medicine / Ping-cheung Lo -- Radical disagreements of Chinese views on fetal life and implications for bioethics / Nie Jing-Bao -- Part III A human Embryonic stem-cell research: the geography of persistent disagreement -- Using and misusing embryos: the ethical debates / Brenda Almond -- Trading lives or changing human nature: the strange dilemma of embryo-based regenerative medicine / Glen Mcgee -- Therapeutic cloning, frspect for human embryo, and symbolic value / Jonathan Chan -- Part IV A Search for a larger picture: regenerative medicine and the moral enterprise -- Medical biotechnologies: are there effective ethical arguments for policy making? / Ruiping Fan and Erika Yu -- Extending human life: to what end? / Brent Waters -- Ethics of Regenerative medicine: beyond humanism and posthumanism / Gerald P. Mckenny -- Virtue in vitro: virtue ethics as an alternative to questions of moral status / Justin Ho and Garret Merriam -- Index |
Summary |
The use of human embryonic stem cells in research is justified by its advocates in terms of promises to cure a wide range of diseases and disabilities, from Alzheimer.s and Parkinsonism to the results of heart attacks and spinal cord injuries. More broadly, there is the promethean allure of being able to redesign human biological nature in terms of the goals and concerns of humans. Needless to say, these allures and promises have provoked a wide range of not just moral but metaphysical reflections that reveal and reflect deep fault-lines in our cultures. The essays in this volume, directly and indirectly, present the points of controversy as they tease out the character of the moral issues that confront any attempt to develop the human regenerative technologies that might move us from a human to a post-human nature. Although one can appreciate the disputes as independently philosophical, they are surely also a function of the conflict between a Christian and a post-Christian culture, in that Christianity has from its beginning recognized a fundamental prohibition against the taking of early human life. Even the philosophical disputes that frame secular bioethics are often motivated and shaped by these background cultural conflicts |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Regenerative medicine -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Embryonic stem cells -- Research -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Bioethics.
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Regenerative Medicine -- ethics
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Bioethical Issues
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Cell Transplantation -- ethics
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Embryo Research -- ethics
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Bioethics
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Embryonic stem cells -- Research -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Regenerative medicine -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Sciences humaines.
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Sciences sociales.
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Bioethics
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Ip, King-Tak.
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ISBN |
9781402089671 |
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1402089678 |
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1402096151 |
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9781402096150 |
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