What Are Stem Cells? : Definitions at the Intersection of Science and Politics.

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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 mi...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lynch, John Alexander
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2011.
Colección:Rhetoric, culture, and social critique.
Temas:
Stem cells.
Reasoning.
Stem cells > Social aspects.
Stem cells > Moral and ethical aspects.
Stem Cells
Cellules souches.
Cellules souches > Aspect social.
Cellules souches > Aspect moral.
MEDICAL > Research.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 Argument; Notes; Works Cited; Index.

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