Research Catalog

Title

The human embryonic stem cell debate : science, ethics, and public policy / edited by Suzanne Holland, Karen Lebacqz, and Laurie Zoloth.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2001.

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Additional Authors

• Holland, Suzanne.
• Lebacqz, Karen, 1945-
• Zoloth, Laurie.

Description

xxvii, 257 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Basic bioethics

Uniform Title

Basic bioethics

Subject

• Bioethics
• Embryonic Structures
• Human embryo > Moral and ethical aspects
• Public Policy
• Research
• Stem Cells
• Stem cells > Moral and ethical aspects
• United States

Note

• "A Bradford book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain
• committed to retain

Contents

• Human embryonic stem cells : a primer on the technology and its medical applications / Thomas B. Okarma -- Human enbryonic stem cells / James A. Thomson -- The stem cell debate in historical context / John C. Fletcher -- On the ethics and politics of embryonic stem cell research / Erik Parens -- Human embryonic stem cell research : comments on the NBAC report / Francoise Baylis -- NBAC's arguments on embryo research : strengths and weaknesses / John C. Fletcher -- Beyond the embryo : a feminist appraisal of the embryonic stem cell debate / Suzanne Holland -- Stem cell research-a Jewish perspective / Elliot N. Dorff.
• "Expert bioethics" as professional discourse : the case of stem cells / Paul Root Wolpe and Glenn McGee -- Stem cells : shaping the future in public policy / Margaret R. McLean -- Leaps and boundaries : expanding oversight of human stem cell research / Cynthia B. Cohen -- Jordan's banks : a view from the first years of human embryonic stem cell research / Laurie Zoloth.
• The ethics of the eighth day : Jewish bioethics and research on human embryonic stem cells / Laurie Zoloth -- Roman Catholic views on research involving human embryonic stem cells / Margaret A. Farley -- Human embryonic stem cells : possible approaches from a Catholic perspective / Michael M. Mendiola -- Embryonic stem cells and the theology of dignity / Ted Peters -- Some Protestant reflections / Gilbert Meilaender -- On the elusive nature of respect / Karen Lebacqz -- Ethical issues : a secular perspective / Ernle W. D. Young -- From the micro to macro / Thomas A. Shannon.

ISBN

• 0262082993 (hc.)
• 0262582082 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2001030624

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library