The Human Embryonic Stem Cell Debate
Science, Ethics, and Public Policy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23769253 |
|---|---|
| Editors | Suzanne Holland, Karen Lebacqz, Laurie Zoloth (0000-0001-8751-7261) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Publication date | 2001-09-14 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Human Embryonic Stem Cell Debate (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | The MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.7551/mitpress/3595.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W2333775133 |
| ISBN | 9780262275569 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
Human embryonic stem cells can divide indefinitely and have the potential to develop into many types of tissue. Research on these cells is essential to one of the most intriguing medical frontiers, regenerative medicine. It also raises a host of difficult ethical issues and has sparked great public interest and controversy. This book offers a foundation for thinking about the many issues involved in human embryonic stem cell research. It considers questions about the nature of human life, the limits of intervention into human cells and tissues, and the meaning of our corporeal existence. The fact that stem cells may be derived from living embryos that are destroyed in the process or from aborted fetuses ties the discussion of stem cell research to the ongoing debates on abortion. In addition to these issues, the essays in the book touch on broader questions such as who should approve controversial research and what constitutes human dignity, respect, and justice. The book contains contributions from the Ethics Advisory Board of the Geron Coroporation; excerpts from expert testimony given before the National Bioethics Advisory Commission, which helped shape recent National Institutes of Health policy; and original analytical essays on the implications of this research.
Abortion · Bioethics · Biology · Commission · Dignity · Economic Justice · Embryonic stem cell · Engineering ethics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Meaning (existential) · Medical research · Personhood · Political science · Stem cell · Biomedical Ethics and Regulation · Biotechnology · Cell Biology · Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare · Law · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations · Philosophy
Challenges in the Evaluation of Nanoscale Research
Brokers and Entrepreneurs in Human Stem Cell Governance Networks in the United States
Space, place and temporality in stem cell and cancer tissue banking
Human embryos as boundary objects? Some reflections on the biomedical worlds of embryonic stem cells and pre-implantation genetic diagnosis
Attitudes Toward Embryo Research, Worldviews, and the Moral Status of the Embryo Frame
Vulnerability and the Consenting Subject
Stem Cell Stories 1998–2008
The UK Stem Cell Bank
Debates on Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research in Japan
Negotiating Life’
Documenting the doable and doing the documented
National risk signatures and human embryonic stem cell research in mainland China
The meanings of genomics
Analyzing acceptance politics
The four “R”s
Regenerating movements
Ethical boundary-work in the embryonic stem cell laboratory
Envisaging the embryo in stem cell research
Regulating ‘Respect’ for the Embryo
Contested Embryonic Culture in Japan—Public Discussion, and Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research in an Aging Welfare Society
Path Dependence and Value-Driven Issues
Embryonic Politics
The Ethical Examination of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Extraction Technology from the Perspective of Classical Confucianism's Benevolence Toward People 仁民 (renmin) and Love for Things 愛物 (aiwu)
Introduction
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2002 - 2025 (24) |
| Highly cited | No |