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
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-226) and index