Renewing the Stuff of Life Stem Cells, Ethics, and Public Policy

Name: Renewing the Stuff of Life Stem Cells, Ethics, and Public Policy
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ISBN: 9780195305241

ISBN-10: 0195305248

ISBN-13: 9780195305241

Edition: 2007

Authors: Cynthia B. Cohen

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Renewing the Stuff of Life offers the first truly comprehensive picture of the scientific, ethical, policy, social, religious, political, and business issues raied by stem cell research ever since it exploded onto the scene in 1998. It addresses such riveting questions as: should we use cloning and parthenogenesis to create embryos for stem cell research? Is it wrong to develop human-nonhuman chimeras that might house human brains in animal bodies? What social and politicalforces are driving federal and state stem cell research policies and why? Should stem cell lines be patented? Do we need a national ethics body to guide the development of this research?Cohen explains just what stem cells…

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List price: $53.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/25/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 9.29" wide x 6.30" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Introduction



What Are Stem Cells? How Do They Function? What Might They Do?



The Search for New Sources of Pluripotent Stem Cells



The Moral Significance of Early Human Embryos in Secular Thought



The Moral Significance of Early Human Embryos in Religious Thought



Creating Human-Nonhuman Chimeras in Stem Cell Research



International Stem Cell Research and Research Cloning: Three Contrasting Approaches



The Development of National Policy on Stem Cell Research in the United States



In Pursuit of National Review and Oversight of Stem Cell Research in the United States



NIH Guidelines for Funding of Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Research, August 25, 2000



Speech by President George W. Bush regarding Human Stem Cell Research, August 9, 2001



Withdrawal of NIH Guidelines for Research Using Human Pluripotent Stem Cells, November 2, 2001



NIH Criteria for Federal Funding of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells, November 7, 2001



President George W. Bush's Veto of the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2005, July 2006


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