Contested cells : global perspectives on the stem cell debate / editors, Benjamin J. Capps, Alastair V. Campbell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Capps, Benjamin J.

Campbell, Alastair V.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stem cells.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (516 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : ICP/Imperial College Press ; Singapore ; Hackensack, N.J. : Distributed by World Scientific, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is an edited collection of linked essays on the moral description, understanding, and evaluation of values within the regional (e.g. Europe, North America and Asia) and global setting in stem cell science. Themes include the potential value in finding and affirming common ethical norms; the possibility of compromise in reaching ethical consensus (or agreement) in stem cell science (this is a topic which concerns so-called procedural ethics, jurisprudence, and political philosophy in ethical debate); and the benefits, dangers and goals of assenting to a global/regional ethic. There is

Contents:

Foreword / Thomas H. Murray

Contested cells: global perspectives on the stem cell debate - a critical introduction / Benjamin Capps and Alastair V. Campbell

A case study of experimental stem cell therapy and the risks of over-regulation / Anthony Hollander

Stem cell technology: from research regulation to clinical applications / Donald Chalmers

Legal imperialism in the regulation of stem cell research and therapy: the problem of extraterritorial jurisdiction / Daniela Cutas and Christian Munthe

Governing cloning: United Nations' debates and the institutional context of standards / W. Calvin Ho

Sociological reflections on ethics, embryonic stem cells and translational research / Claire Williams and Steven Wainwright

Rhetoric, power and legitimacy in public discourse: a critical analysis of the public debate surrounding the review of embryo research and cloning legislation in Australia in 2005 / Tamra Lysaght and Ian Kerridge

New developments in stem cell science: iPS cells and the challenge to consent / Jonathan Mackenney and Benjamin Capps

'Reasonable suffering': the application of stem cell technologies to non-human animals / James Yeates

Ontological status of human-non-human embryonic chimeras / Josef Kure

Religion, civic virtue and the stem cell debate / Teoh Chin Leong

Rejuvenated federalism: state-based stem cell research policy / Geoffrey Lomax

Hybrid embryos - ethics, law and rhetoric in the United Kingdom's stem cell policy / Natasha Hammond-Browning and Sren Holm

Stem cell research and its clinical application in China: interactions between science, ethics and society / Renzong Qiu and Xiaomei Zhai

Neither a 'person' nor a 'thing': the controversy concerning the moral and legal status of human embryos in Japan / Satoshi Kodama and Akira Akabayashi

A tale of two countries: Czech and Slovak stem cell biopolicies / Peter Sykora.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613143365

9781283143363

1283143364

9781848164383

1848164386

OCLC:

740446030