Stem Cell Dialogues - Sheldon Krimsky

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Résumé :
A dramatic new way to explore controversial science: Socratic dialogues. These creative debates follow the nuances and complexities of stem cell research and emerging therapies for informed readers and newcomers alike.

Biographie:
Sheldon Krimsky

Sommaire:
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 Cells
Dialogue 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 Ovaries
Dialogue 24. My Cells Are Drugs
Dialogue 25. A Clinical Trial for Paralysis Treatment
Epilogue
Notes
Glossary
Index