| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 225 pages) |
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Health, technology, and society |
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Health, technology, and society.
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| Contents |
Globalization, stem cell markets and national interests -- Embryos, ocytes, cell lines : HESC science and the human tissue market -- Global regulation and local policy narratives : making sense of Dolly -- From Dolly to therapies : stem cell regulations in the making I : the United Kingdom and the United States -- From Dolly to therapies : stem cell regulations in the making II : Germany, Italy, Japan, and South Korea -- Bioethics and the global moral economy of human embryonic stem cell science -- Human ESC science and the cultural politics of the EU's framework programmes -- Contested governance : uncertainty and standardization in research and patenting |
| Summary |
Regenerative medicine is a field characterized by a global struggle for scientific, economic and national advantage. Drawing on a wide range of interviews, primary and secondary sources, this book investigates the dynamic interactions between national regulatory formation and the global biopolitics of regenerative medicine and human embryonic stem cell science. Today governments are under intense competitive pressure to fund and develop attractive national environments for embryonic stem cell science, which promises both to improve the health and productivity of aging populations and to develop therapies for global health markets. This study traces the development of internationally circulating arguments for and against stem cell research, and the various transnational bioethical spaces that have opened up to try and steer these arguments towards compromise and implementation. It considers the flow of embryonic and reproductive biological materials from south to north, and the ways these flows play into broader relations around global biopolitics. It investigates the place of transnational regulatory bodies like the EU and the UN in organizing and modifying the international and national debates around stem cell science, and ways in which national debates and policies influence each other. It makes a major contribution to our understanding of the dynamics of power that fuels the emergence of global regenerative medicine in the age of biotechnology |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-219) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Embryonic stem cells -- Research -- Cross-cultural studies
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Human embryo -- Research -- Cross-cultural studies
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Regenerative medicine -- Cross-cultural studies
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Cloning -- Cross-cultural studies
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Cloning, Organism -- legislation & jurisprudence
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Embryonic Stem Cells -- cytology
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Biomedical Research -- ethics
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Public Policy
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Genetic engineering.
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Embryology.
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MEDICAL -- Ethics.
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Technology.
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Cloning
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Embryonic stem cells -- Research
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Human embryo -- Research
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Regenerative medicine
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| Genre/Form |
Cross-cultural studies
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dissertations.
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Academic theses.
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Thèses et écrits académiques.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Salter, Brian, 1946-
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Waldby, Cathy.
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| ISBN |
9780230594364 |
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0230594360 |
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9780230002630 |
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0230002633 |
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9781349280872 |
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1349280879 |
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