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Renewing the stuff of life : stem cells, ethics, and public policy
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- Summary
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Covering the controversial bioethics of stem cell research, this text maps out the likely ethical issues and controversies resulting from future work in this important scientific area.
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- Creator
- Cynthia B. Cohen with illustrations by Roberta A. Heisterkamp
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2007
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- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (x, 311 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9781429491143, 0190294027, 0197708501, 0195305248, 1281163058, 9780199719440, 9780190294021, 9780195305241, 1429491140, 9780197708507, 9781281163059, 0199719446
- OCLC
- ocn923712681, ocm71369469, on1406787198
- Previously issued in print: 2007.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-295) and index.
- English
- Introduction; 1. What Are Stem Cells? How Do They Function? What Might They Do?; 2. The Search for New Sources of Pluripotent Stem Cells; 3. The Moral Significance of Early Human Embryos in Secular Thought; 4. The Moral Significance of Early Human Embryos in Religious Thought; 5. Creating Human-Nonhuman Chimeras in Stem Cell Research; 6. International Stem Cell Research and Research Cloning: Three Contrasting Approaches; 7. The Development of National Policy on Stem Cell Research in the United States; 8. In Pursuit of National Review and Oversight of Stem Cell Research