Experiments in democracy : human embryo research and the politics of bioethics /

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Human embryo research touches upon strongly felt moral convictions, and it raises such deep questions about the promise and perils of scientific progress that debate over its development has become a moral and political imperative. From in vitro fertilization to embryonic stem cell research, cloning...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hurlbut, J. Benjamin (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]
Series:Columbia scholarship online.
Subjects:
Human embryo > Research > Government policy > United States.
Stem cells > Research > Moral and ethical aspects > United States.
Embryo Research > ethics
Stem Cell Research > ethics
Embryon humain > Recherche > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
Cellules souches > Recherche > Aspect moral > États-Unis.
MEDICAL > Physiology.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Human Anatomy & Physiology.
Stem cells > Research > Moral and ethical aspects
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the politics of experiment
  • New beginnings
  • Producing life
  • Representing reason
  • Cloning, knowledge, and the politics of consensus
  • Confusing deliberation
  • In the laboratories of democracy
  • Religion, reason, and the politics of progress
  • The legacy of experiment.

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