Stem Cell Dialogues : a Philosophical and Scientific Inquiry Into Medical Frontiers /
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Author / Creator: | Krimsky, Sheldon, author. |
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Imprint: | New York : Columbia University Press, [2015] ©2015 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xxix, 238 pages) |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11243359 |
Table of Contents:
- Table of Contents; Annotated Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Harnessing Stem Cells for Regenerative Medicine; Dialogue 1. Hope; Dialogue 2. Why Is This Cell Different from Other Cells?; Dialogue 3. The President's Stem Cells; Dialogue 4. The Dickey-Wicker Enigma; Dialogue 5. The Moral Status of Embryos; Dialogue 6. Creating Good from Immoral Acts; Dialogue 7. Circumventing Embryocide; Dialogue 8. My Personalized Beta Cells for Diabetes; Dialogue 9. Repairing Brain Cells in Stroke Victims; Dialogue 10. Reversing Macular Degeneration; Dialogue 11. My Stem Cells, My Cancer.
- Dialogue 12. Reprogramming CellsDialogue 13. My Personalized Disease Cells; Dialogue 14. To Clone or Not to Clone: That Is the Question; Dialogue 15. Patenting Human Embryonic Stem Cells Is Immoral and Illegal (in Europe); Dialogue 16. My Embryo Is Auctioned on the Internet; Dialogue 17. Here Comes the Egg Man: Oocytes and Embryos.org; Dialogue 18. Human-Animal Chimeras and Hybrids; Dialogue 19. Stem Cell Tourism; Dialogue 20. Social Media Meet Science Hype; Dialogue 21. Feminism and the Commercialization of Human Eggs/Embryos; Dialogue 22. Was My Birth Embryo Me?
- Dialogue 23. Embryos Without OvariesDialogue 24. My Cells Are Drugs; Dialogue 25. A Clinical Trial for Paralysis Treatment; Epilogue; Notes; Glossary; Index.