The global politics of human embryonic stem cell science : regenerative medicine in transition / by Herbert Gottweis, Brian Salter and Catherine Waldby

Author:: Gottweis, Herbert, 1958-
Published:: Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Physical Description:: ix, 225 pages ; 23 cm.
Additional Creators:: Salter, Brian, 1946- and Waldby, Cathy

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Health, technology, and society

Contents:

Globalization, stem cell markets and national interests -- Embryos, ocytes, cell lines : HESC science and the human tissue market -- Global regulation and local policy narratives : making sense of Dolly -- From Dolly to therapies : stem cell regulations in the making I : the United Kingdom and the United States -- From Dolly to therapies : stem cell regulations in the making II : Germany, Italy, Japan, and South Korea -- Bioethics and the global moral economy of human embryonic stem cell science -- Human ESC science and the cultural politics of the EU's framework programmes -- Contested governance : uncertainty and standardization in research and patenting.

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ISBN:

9780230002630 (hardback)
0230002633 (hardback)

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-219) and index.

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