Good science : the ethical choreography of stem cell research / Charis Thompson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thompson, Charis, author.

Series:

Inside technology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stem cells--Research--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.

Stem cells.

Stem cells--Research--Government policy--California.

Stem cells--Research--United States--Finance.

Federal aid to medical research--United States.

Federal aid to medical research.

Stem cells--Research.

Finance.

Government policy.

Stem cells--Research--Moral and ethical aspects.

United States.

California.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2013]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

After a decade and a half, human pluripotent stem cell research has been normalized. There may be no consensus on the status of the embryo -- only a tacit agreement to disagree -- but the debate now takes place in a context in which human stem cell research and related technologies already exist. In this book, Charis Thompson investigates the evolution of the controversy over human pluripotent stem cell research in the United States and proposes a new ethical approach for "good science." Thompson traces political, ethical, and scientific developments that came together in what she characterizes as a "procurial" framing of innovation, based on concern with procurement of pluripotent cells and cell lines, a pro-cures mandate, and a proliferation of bio-curatorial practices. Thompson describes what she calls the "ethical choreography" that allowed research to go on as the controversy continued. The intense ethical attention led to some important discoveries as scientists attempted to "invent around" ethical roadblocks. Some ethical concerns were highly legible; but others were hard to raise in the dominant procurial framing that allowed government funding for the practice of stem cell research to proceed despite controversy. Thompson broadens the debate to include such related topics as animal and human research subjecthood and altruism. Looking at fifteen years of stem cell debate and discoveries, Thompson argues that good science and good ethics are mutually reinforcing, rather than antithetical, in contemporary biomedicine.

Contents:

I Stem Cell Biopolitics

1 Ethical Choreography at the End of the Beginning of Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Research 3

The End of the Beginning 3

Triage: Actors, Field Sites, Transcripts 9

Overview of the Book 19

2 "Good Science" 25

Sciences That "Have Ethics" 25

The Pro-Curial Frame, Its Biopolitics, and Its Necropolitics 29

The Ethical Choreography of Good Science 60

II Stem Cell Geopolitics

3 Stem Cell Nation, Stem Cell State 69

"These Cell Lines Should Be Useful": Curriculum Vitae 69

Bush's "Fundamental Questions" Versus Obama's "Responsible ... Consensus" 73

California Dreaming (Of Real Estate and Women) 85

4 Transnational Stem Cell Circuits 115

Stem Cell Brain Drains 115

Singapore, South Korea, and the "East" 122

Stem Cell Internationalism Versus Stem Cell Tourism 138

III Thinking of Other Lives

5 A Forward-Looking State: On Public Donations and Reciprocity in California's Stem Cell Proposition 151

Two Public Gifts and Their Taking 151

Reciprocity Worth Fighting For? 172

Four Models and Their Provocations 180

6 On the Research Subject and the Animal Model 189

The Substitutive Research Subject 189

Animal Politics 208

From Humanizing the Animal Model To In-Vivo-Izing the in Vitro Model 218.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9780262319034

0262319039

9780262319041

0262319047

9780262026994

0262026996

OCLC:

868662559

Publisher Number:

9780262319034

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