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Stem Cell Research: New Frontiers in Science and Ethics

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Description for Stem Cell Research: New Frontiers in Science and Ethics Paperback. Exploring the ethical, public policy, and scientific implications of embryonic and adult stem cell research, this text offers a variety of scientific and public policy perspectives; vigorously examines the ethics of stem cell research; and considers issues of social justice, morality, and public policy. Editor(s): Snow, Nancy. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: MBDC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 219 x 144 x 22. Weight in Grams: 276.

This volume brings together essays by an internationally distinguished and diverse group of scholars. Contributors thoughtfully explore the ethical, public policy, and scientific implications of embryonic and adult stem cell research.

Part one of the book offers a variety of scientific and public policy perspectives, including essays on stem cell plasticity and using umbilical cord blood as an alternative source of pluripotent stem cells. Part two vigorously examines the ethics of stem cell research and considers issues of social justice, morality, and public policy. Scientific alternatives, a natural law perspective regarding federal funding, and a discussion of the possible ... Read more

The objective and balanced discussions contained in this volume serve as an accessible introduction to the bioethical questions, issues, and problems surrounding stem cell research.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
230
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268017781
SKU
V9780268017781
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Unknown
Nancy E. Snow is professor of philosophy at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Reviews for Stem Cell Research: New Frontiers in Science and Ethics
“This volume is a collection of ten essays developed out of a 2001 conference . . . the gathering convened scientists and ethicists to discuss scientific, public policy, and ethical issues concerning human stem cell research . . . the essays offer a wide range of topics, analyses, and arguments, and, as a whole, exhibit some of the complexity of ... Read more

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