Stem cells : new frontiers in science and ethics / / Muireann Quigley, Sarah Chan, John Harris, editors

• Pubblicazione: Toh Tuck Link, Singapore, : World Scientific, 2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (297 p.)
• Disciplina: 174.28
• Soggetto topico: Stem cells - Research - Moral and ethical aspects; Embryonic stem cells - Research
• Altri autori: QuigleyMuireann ChanSarah HarrisJohn <1945->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; 1 New Frontiers in Stem Cell Science & Ethics: Current Technology & Future Challenges Muireann Quigley, Sarah Chan, and John Harris; 1. DEBATING STEM CELL TECHNOLOGIES; 2. STEM CELLS: SOME ETHICAL AND LEGAL ISSUES; 3. FUTURE CHALLENGES AT THE NEW FRONTIERS OF SCIENCE?; REFERENCES; 2 The Monopoly of Moral Status in Debates on Embryonic Stem Cell Research Sorcha Uí Chonnachtaigh; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. THE CONCEPTION VIEW; 2.1 The Roman Catholic Position; 2.2 Human Dignity; 2.3 Genetic Individuality/Uniqueness; 3. THE PERSONHOOD VIEW ; 3.1 Harrisian Personhood 3.2 Criticism of the Personhood View; 4. THE INTERMEDIATE APPROACHES TO MORAL STATUS; 4.1 The Gradualist View; 4.1.1 Gradualism in Law; 4.1.2 The Gradualist View of Moral Status; 4.1.3 Sumner's Sentience-based Gradualist Account; 4.1.4 Lockwood's Brain Birth Account; 4.1.5 Objections to the Gradualist View; 4.2 The Moderate View; 4.2.1 Metaphysical versus Moral Personhood and the Moral Community; 4.2.2 Robertson's Symbolic Value; 4.2.3 Warren's Multi-criterial View; 5. MORAL STATUS, MORAL VALUE; 5.1 The Concept of Moral Status; 5.2 A Sliding Scale of Moral Value ; 5.3 The Moral Value of the Embryo 6. THE MORAL STATUS OF THE EMBRYO AND PUBLIC POLICY; REFERENCES; 3 The Construction of the Embryo and Implications for Law Sheelagh McGuinness; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. WHAT IS CONSTRUCTION?; 3. HOW IS THE EMBRYO CONSTRUCTED?; 3.1 A Human Being 38; 3.2 A Potential Person 49; 3.3 An Unborn Child 55; 3.4 As a Thing 65 or Stuff k,66; 3.5 'Boundary Object'72 or a 'Moral Work Object'73; 3.6 A 'Legally Defined Entity'81; 4. CONSTRUCTIONS OF THE EMBRYO IN LAW; 5. CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; 4 Legal Regulation of Human Stem Cell Technology Loane Skene; 1. INTRODUCTION ; 2. THE EARLY LEGISLATION ON HUMAN STEM CELL RESEARCH 3. RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN STEM CELL SCIENCE AND TREATMENT; 3.1 Animals; 3.2 Humans; 4. REVIEWING THE REGULATORY STRUCTURE IN LIGHT OF SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS; 5. OTHER POLICY ISSUES: PAYMENT FOR EGGS; HUMAN-ANIMAL HYBRIDS; 6. PITFALLS IN AMENDING LEGISLATION: THE EXAMPLE OF NEW RESEARCH ON MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASE; 7. THE HEEREY COMMITTEE'S RECOMMENDATIONS; 8. CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; 5 Human Embryos in Stem Cell Research: Property and Recompense Sarah Devaney; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. IVF EMBRYOS AND CONCEPTS OF PROPERTY ; 2.1 The Law's Approach to IVF Embryo Progenitors 2.2 The Nature of the Embryo in SC Research - Progenitors' Views; 2.3 Recompense to Providers of 'Spare' IVF Embryos; 3. PROTECTING THE INTERESTS OF THE EMBRYO PROVIDERS WITHIN A PROPERTY FRAMEWORK; 3.1 Potential Conflicts between Patient and Tissue Provider Roles; 3.2 Commodification; 3.3 Disagreement or Disengagement on the Fate of the Embryo; 4. CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; 6 Against the Discarded-Created Distinction in Embryonic Stem Cell Research Katrien Devolder; 1. INTRODUCTION; 1.1 The Dilemma; 2. THE DISCARDED-CREATED DISTINCTION ; 2.1 Discarded Embryos
• Sommario/riassunto: Fast-moving and ever-changing, stem cell science and research presents ongoing ethical and legal challenges in many countries. Each development and innovation throws up new challenges. This is the case even where new developments initially seem to solve old dilemmas. Sometimes it becomes evident that new science does not in fact solve old problems and, for that reason, the ethical issues remain. In recognition of this, this book presents innovative and creative analyses of a range of ethical and legal challenges raised by stem cell research and its potential and actual application. The editors
• Titolo autorizzato: Stem cells
• ISBN: 1-280-66973-X; 9786613646668; 981-4374-25-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910816791903321
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