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Stem Cell Dialogues : a Philosophical and Scientific Inquiry Into Medical Frontiers / Sheldon Krimsky

Author
Krimsky, Sheldon
Published
New York : Columbia University Press, [2015]
Copyright Date
©2015
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxix, 238 pages)
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Contents
Table of Contents; Annotated Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Harnessing Stem Cells for Regenerative Medicine; Dialogue 1. Hope; Dialogue 2. Why Is This Cell Different from Other Cells?; Dialogue 3. The President's Stem Cells; Dialogue 4. The Dickey-Wicker Enigma; Dialogue 5. The Moral Status of Embryos; Dialogue 6. Creating Good from Immoral Acts; Dialogue 7. Circumventing Embryocide; Dialogue 8. My Personalized Beta Cells for Diabetes; Dialogue 9. Repairing Brain Cells in Stroke Victims; Dialogue 10. Reversing Macular Degeneration; Dialogue 11. My Stem Cells, My Cancer., Dialogue 12. Reprogramming CellsDialogue 13. My Personalized Disease Cells; Dialogue 14. To Clone or Not to Clone: That Is the Question; Dialogue 15. Patenting Human Embryonic Stem Cells Is Immoral and Illegal (in Europe); Dialogue 16. My Embryo Is Auctioned on the Internet; Dialogue 17. Here Comes the Egg Man: Oocytes and Embryos.org; Dialogue 18. Human-Animal Chimeras and Hybrids; Dialogue 19. Stem Cell Tourism; Dialogue 20. Social Media Meet Science Hype; Dialogue 21. Feminism and the Commercialization of Human Eggs/Embryos; Dialogue 22. Was My Birth Embryo Me?, and Dialogue 23. Embryos Without OvariesDialogue 24. My Cells Are Drugs; Dialogue 25. A Clinical Trial for Paralysis Treatment; Epilogue; Notes; Glossary; Index.
Summary
Sheldon Krimsky is the Lenore Stern Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences in the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning in the School of Arts and Sciences and adjunct professor in the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine at the School of Medicine at Tufts University. His research focuses on the links among science and technology, ethics and values, and public policy, and he is the author or editor of fourteen books, including Genetic Justice: DNA Data Banks, Criminal Investigations, and Civil Liberties, and 200 book chapters, journal articles, and reviews.
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ISBN
9780231539401 (NL)
0231539401 (NL)
9780231167482
0231167482
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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