| Description |
1 online resource (v, 167 pages) |
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Issues in biomedical ethics |
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Issues in biomedical ethics.
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| Contents |
Introduction: The ethics of embryonic stem cell research -- The discarded-created distinction -- The use-derivation distinction -- Technical solutions -- Compromise and consistency |
| Summary |
Katrien Devolder focuses on the tension between the popular view that an embryo should never be deliberately harmed or destroyed, and the view that embryonic stem cell research, because of its enormous promise, must go forward. She provides an in-depth ethical analysis of the major philosophical and political attempts to resolve this tension.--Provided by publisher |
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"This book argues that all of the proposed solutions to the problem of embryo destruction in embryonic stem cell research, as they have been formulated to date, rely on inconsistent argumentation and, thus, fail as sound ethical positions. It ends with some thoughts on whether such inconsistent solutions can nevertheless be accepted as compromise positions--to serve as a basis for stem cell policy--but concludes that this would have significant costs."--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-163) and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from e-book title screen (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed March 17, 2016) |
| Subject |
Embryonic stem cells -- Research -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Stem Cell Research -- ethics
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Business Ethics.
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Biology.
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Health & Biological Sciences.
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Cytology.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191792038 |
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0191792039 |
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9780191036224 |
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0191036226 |
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