1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910703752603321

Titolo

Oversight on EPA's children's health protection efforts : hearing before the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, September 16, 2008

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington : , : U.S. Government Publishing Office, , 2015

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (iv, 224 pages) : illustrations

Collana

S. hrg. ; ; 110-1265

Soggetti

Children - Health and hygiene - United States

Children - Health and hygiene - Environmental aspects - United States

Environmentally induced diseases in children - United States - Prevention

Environmental health - Research - United States

Asthma in children - United States

Legislative hearings.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on May 27, 2015).

Paper version available for sale by the Superintendent of Documents, United States Government Publishing Office.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791963803321

Autore

Lynch John (John Alexander), <1976->

Titolo

What are stem cells? [[electronic resource] ] : definitions at the intersection of science and politics / / John Lynch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2011

ISBN

0-8173-8576-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (194 p.)

Collana

Rhetoric, culture, and social critique

Disciplina

616/.02774

Soggetti

Stem cells

Reasoning

Stem cells - Social aspects

Stem cells - Moral and ethical aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Science-Based Controversies and Idioms of Public Argument; 2. Timely and Powerful: Defining Stem Cells through Appeals to Application; 3. Abortion and the Embryo: Right-to-Life Arguments as a Source for Rhetorical Invention; 4. Blastocysts, Spare Embryos, and Embryo Adoption: Redefining the Beginnings of Human Life; 5. Power, Potency, and Plasticity: Hierarchies of Stem Cells and Their Inherent Ambiguities; 6. Stalemate and the Idioms of Science-Based Controversy: George W. Bush's Manichean Idiom and Barack Obama's Return to a Scientistic Idiom

7. Scientistic and Manichean Idioms of Public ArgumentNotes; Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In recent years political, religious, and scientific communities have engaged in an ethical debate regarding the development of and research on embryonic stem cells. Does the manipulation of embryonic stem cells destroy human life? Or do limitations imposed on stem cell research harm patients who might otherwise benefit?   John Lynch's What Are Stem Cells? identifies the moral stalemate between the rights of the embryo and the rights of the patient and uses it as the framework for a larger discussion about the role of definitions as a key rhetorical strategy i