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Renewing the stuff of life : stem cells, ethics, and public policy /
Stem cell therapy is ushering in a new era of medicine in which we will be able to repair human organs and tissue at their most fundamental level- that of the cell. The power of stem cells to regenerate cells of specific types, such as heart, liver, and muscle, is unique and extraordinary. In 1998 r...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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| Colección: | OUP E-Books.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- 1. What are stem cells? How do they function? What might they do?
- 2. The search for new sources of pluripotent stem cells
- 3. The moral significance of early human embryos in secular thought
- 4. The moral significance of early human embryos in religious thought
- 5. Creating human-nonhuman chimeras in stem cell research
- 6. International stem cell research and research cloning : three contrasting approaches
- 7. The development of national policy on stem cell research in the United States
- 8. In pursuit of national review and oversight of stem cell research in the United States
- Appendix A. NIH guidelines for funding of human pluripotent stem cell research, August 25, 2000
- Appendix B. Speech by President George W. Bush regarding human stem cell research, August 9, 2001
- Appendix C. Withdrawal of NIH guidelines for research using human pluripotent stem cells, November 2, 2001
- Appendix D. NIH criteria for federal funding of human pluripotent stem cells, November 7, 2001
- Appendix E. President George W. Bush's veto of the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2005, July 2006.