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Is it acceptable from an ethical point of view to use stem cells from human embryos for scientific research and clinical therapy? And what are the weaknesses and strengths of various opinions and positions when they are critically evaluated? These are the main problems dealt with in this book. The various chapters as a whole give a comprehensive, many-sided and balanced discussion of the subject. The book contains contributions from biological, medical, social, political, philosophical and theological perspectives. The authors have been chosen because of their professional competence, many of them being respected scholars on a top international level. They give an updated contribution from their own discipline in order to enlighten the different aspects of the common theme. The authors cover various positions and evaluations with regard to the question of the use of embryonic stem cells for research and therapy. The book is written for several audiences: a) scholars and professionals working with stem cell research or with the ethical questions arising from this field (people from biology, medicine, law, philosophy, theology etc.), b) advanced and graduate students within the same professional disciplines and c) politicians and the general public interested in the burning ethical problems which are intensively debated in many countries.
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Genre |
: Science |
Author |
: Lars Østnor |
Publisher |
: Springer Science & Business Media |
Release |
: 2008-04-03 |
File |
: 258 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781402069895 |
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Genre |
: Medical |
Author |
: Muireann Quigley |
Publisher |
: World Scientific |
Release |
: 2012 |
File |
: 297 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789814374248 |
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Discusses the ethical issues involved in the use of human embryonic stem cells in regenerative medicine.
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Genre |
: Bioethics |
Author |
: Suzanne Holland |
Publisher |
: MIT Press |
Release |
: 2001 |
File |
: 294 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 0262582082 |
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Embryonic stem cell research holds unique promise for developing therapies for currently incurable diseases and conditions, and for important biomedical research. However, the process through which embryonic stem cells are obtained involves the destruction of early human embryos. 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. One such attempt involves the development of a middle ground position, which accepts only types or aspects of embryonic stem cell research deemed compatible with the view that the embryo has a significant moral status. An example is the position that it can be permissible to derive stem cells from embryos left over from in vitro fertilisation but not from embryos created for research. Others have advocated a technical solution. Several techniques have been proposed for deriving embryonic stem cells, or their functional equivalents, without harming embryos. An example is the induced pluripotent stem cell technique. Through highlighting inconsistencies in the arguments for these positions, Devolder argues that the central tension in the embryonic stem cell debate remains unresolved. This conclusion has important implications for the stem cell debate, as well as for policies inspired by this debate.
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Genre |
: Philosophy |
Author |
: Katrien Devolder |
Publisher |
: OUP Oxford |
Release |
: 2015-01-22 |
File |
: 211 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780191036231 |
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Stem cell therapy is ushering in a new era of medicine in which we will be able to repair human organs and tissue at their most fundamental level- that of the cell. The power of stem cells to regenerate cells of specific types, such as heart, liver, and muscle, is unique and extraordinary. In 1998 researchers learned how to isolate and culture embryonic stem cells, which are only obtainable through the destruction of human embryos. An ethical debate has raged since then about the ethics of this research, usually pitting pro-life advocates vs. those who see the great promise of curing some of humanity's most persistent diseases. In this book Cynthia Cohen agrees that we need to work toward a consensus on the issue of how we treat the embryo. But more broadly she claims that we need to transform and expand the ethical and policy debates on stem cells (adult and embryonic). This important and much-needed book is both a primer and a means by which to understand the implications of this research. Cohen starts by introducing readers to the basic science of stem cell research, and the core ethical questions surrounding the embryo. She then expands the scope of the debate, looking at the moral questions that will crop up down the line, such as e.g. the use of therapeutic cloning to overcome the body's immune resistance to stem cells; the ethics of using animals to test stem cells; how to disentangle federal and state legal and regulatory policies in pursuit of a coherent national policy; and how to develop an ethics of stem cell research that will accommodate new techniques and controversies that we cannot even foresee now. Her final chapter develops a concrete plan for an oversight system for this research. This is the first single-author book that addresses the many broad ethical and legal issues related to stem cells, and it should be of great interest to bioethicists, researchers, clinicians, philosophers, theologians, lawyers, policy makers, and general readers.
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Genre |
: Medical |
Author |
: Cynthia B. Cohen |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Release |
: 2007-06-25 |
File |
: 320 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780190294021 |
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Fast-moving and ever-changing, stem cell science and research presents ongoing ethical and legal challenges in many countries. Each development and innovation throws up new challenges. This is the case even where new developments initially seem to solve old dilemmas. Sometimes it becomes evident that new science does not in fact solve old problems and, for that reason, the ethical issues remain. In recognition of this, this book presents innovative and creative analyses of a range of ethical and legal challenges raised by stem cell research and its potential and actual application.The editors of this collection have brought together experts from ethics and law to bring fresh perspectives on the use of and research on stem cells. The chapters in this collection range across a number of different issues in the debate on stem cells, from the ethical dilemmas of conducting stem cell research to those of the clinical application of stem cell technology. Each chapter gives an in-depth and comprehensive analysis of the ethical or legal issues at stake. The early chapters give engaging new expositions on the permissibility of using embryos in stem cell research, in particular challenging our views about how we view and ‘construct’ the embryo in debates regarding stem cells. Later chapters move on to actual and potential clinical uses of stem cells and present novel arguments about these.
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Genre |
: Science |
Author |
: John Harris |
Publisher |
: World Scientific |
Release |
: 2012-03-27 |
File |
: 297 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789814458085 |
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Genre |
: Bioethics |
Author |
: |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1999 |
File |
: 218 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: NYPL:33433082965660 |
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Genre |
: Bioethics |
Author |
: United States. National Bioethics Advisory Commission |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1999 |
File |
: 212 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: OSU:32435062721741 |
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Genre |
: Bioethics |
Author |
: United States. National Bioethics Advisory Commission |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1999 |
File |
: 28 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: COLUMBIA:CU19120443 |
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Product Details :
Genre |
: Bioethics |
Author |
: United States. National Bioethics Advisory Commission |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1999 |
File |
: 148 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UOM:39015043264780 |