03116nam 2200637 a 450 991082730820332120240516102559.00-8173-8576-2(CKB)2560000000079533(EBL)835695(OCoLC)772845433(SSID)ssj0000594148(PQKBManifestationID)11412715(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000594148(PQKBWorkID)10548420(PQKB)11753415(MiAaPQ)EBC835695(MdBmJHUP)muse17231(Au-PeEL)EBL835695(CaPaEBR)ebr10527831(EXLCZ)99256000000007953320110128d2011 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrWhat are stem cells? definitions at the intersection of science and politics /John Lynch1st ed.Tuscaloosa University of Alabama Pressc20111 online resource (194 p.)Rhetoric, culture, and social critiqueDescription based upon print version of record.0-8173-1748-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Idiom7. Scientistic and Manichean Idioms of Public ArgumentNotes; Works Cited; IndexIn 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 iRhetoric, culture, and social critique.Stem cellsReasoningStem cellsSocial aspectsStem cellsMoral and ethical aspectsStem cells.Reasoning.Stem cellsSocial aspects.Stem cellsMoral and ethical aspects.616/.02774Lynch John(John Alexander),1976-1695329MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910827308203321What are stem cells4074513UNINA