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Stem cell dialogues a philosophical and scientific inquiry into medical frontiers

Book information

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Year
2015
ISBN
9780231167482, 9780231539401, 0231167482
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1738758 bytes)
Pages
xxxviii, 238 Seiten 24 cm\280
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52

Description

Finding the key to regenerative medicineHope -- Why is this cell different from other cells? -- The president's stem cells -- The dickey-wicker enigma -- The moral status of embryos -- Creating good from immoral acts -- Circumventing embryocide -- My personalized beta cells for diabetes -- Repairing brain cells in stroke victims -- Reversing macular degeneration -- My stem cells, my cancer -- Reprogramming cells -- My personalized disease cells -- To clone or not to clone : that is the question -- Patenting human embryonic stem cells is immoral and illegal -- (in europe) -- My embryo is auctioned on the internet -- Here comes the egg man : embryos and oocytes.org -- Human-animal chimeras and hybrids -- Stem cell tourism -- Social media meets science hype -- Feminism and the commercialization of human eggs/embryos -- Was my birth embryo me? -- Embryos without ovaries -- My cells are drugs -- A clinical trial for paralysis. Finding the key to regenerative medicineHope -- Why is this cell different from other cells? -- The president's stem cells -- The dickey-wicker enigma -- The moral status of embryos -- Creating good from immoral acts -- Circumventing embryocide -- My personalized beta cells for diabetes -- Repairing brain cells in stroke victims -- Reversing macular degeneration -- My stem cells, my cancer -- Reprogramming cells -- My personalized disease cells -- To clone or not to clone : that is the question -- Patenting human embryonic stem cells is immoral and illegal -- (in europe) -- My embryo is auctioned on the internet -- Here comes the egg man : embryos and oocytes.org -- Human-animal chimeras and hybrids -- Stem cell tourism -- Social media meets science hype -- Feminism and the commercialization of human eggs/embryos -- Was my birth embryo me? -- Embryos without ovaries -- My cells are drugs -- A clinical trial for paralysis.

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