The global politics of human embryonic stem cell science
Subtitle: regenerative medicine in transition
By: Herbert Gottweis, Brian Salter, and Catherine Waldby.
Contributors: Salter, Brian, 1946-; Waldby, Cathy.
Series: Health, technology, and society
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230002630
Subjects: Embryonic stem cells -- Research -- Cross-cultural studies; Human embryo -- Research -- Cross-cultural studies; Regenerative medicine -- Cross-cultural studies; Cloning -- Cross-cultural studies; Cloning, Organism -- legislation & jurisprudence; Embryonic Stem Cells -- cytology; Biomedical Research -- ethics; Public Policy
Genres: Cross-cultural studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Globalization, stem cell markets and national interests; title: Embryos, ocytes, cell lines : HESC science and the human tissue market; title: Global regulation and local policy narratives : making sense of Dolly; title: From Dolly to therapies : stem cell regulations in the making I : the United Kingdom and the United States; title: From Dolly to therapies : stem cell regulations in the making II : Germany, Italy, Japan, and South Korea; title: Bioethics and the global moral economy of human embryonic stem cell science; title: Human ESC science and the cultural politics of the EU's framework programmes; title: Contested governance : uncertainty and standardization in research and patenting.