Contested cells
Subtitle: global perspectives on the stem cell debate
By: edited by Benjamin J. Capps, Alastair V. Campbell
Publisher: ICP/Imperial College Press; Distributed by World Scientific; Imperial College Press; Distributed by World Scientific Pub.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; Singapore; Hackensack, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 486
ISBN-13: 9781848164376
Subjects: Stem cells
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Thomas H. Murray; title: Contested cells: global perspectives on the stem cell debate - a critical introduction / Benjamin Capps and Alastair V. Campbell; title: A case study of experimental stem cell therapy and the risks of over-regulation / Anthony Hollander; title: Stem cell technology: from research regulation to clinical applications / Donald Chalmers; title: Legal imperialism in the regulation of stem cell research and therapy: the problem of extraterritorial jurisdiction / Daniela Cutas and Christian Munthe; title: Governing cloning: United Nations' debates and the institutional context of standards / W. Calvin Ho; title: Sociological reflections on ethics, embryonic stem cells and translational research / Claire Williams and Steven Wainwright; title: Rhetoric, power and legitimacy in public discourse: a critical analysis of the public debate surrounding the review of embryo research and cloning legislation in Australia in 2005 / Tamra Lysaght and Ian Kerridge; title: New developments in stem cell science: iPS cells and the challenge to consent / Jonathan Mackenney and Benjamin Capps; title: 'Reasonable suffering': the application of stem cell technologies to non-human animals / James Yeates; title: Ontological status of human-non-human embryonic chimeras / Josef Kur̆e; title: Religion, civic virtue and the stem cell debate / Teoh Chin Leong; title: Rejuvenated federalism: state-based stem cell research policy / Geoffrey Lomax; title: Hybrid embryos - ethics, law and rhetoric in the United Kingdom's stem cell policy / Natasha Hammond-Browning and Søren Holm; title: Stem cell research and its clinical application in China: interactions between science, ethics and society / Renzong Qiu and Xiaomei Zhai; title: Neither a 'person' nor a 'thing': the controversy concerning the moral and legal status of human embryos in Japan / Satoshi Kodama and Akira Akabayashi; title: A tale of two countries: Czech and Slovak stem cell biopolicies / Peter Sýkora.