BookSheldon Krimsky.
Summary: Employing a series of Socratic dialogues, this study of the use of stem cells in medicine and medical research examines the ethical and public policy issues that confront scientists, clinicians, and the public health community.
Contents:
Harnessing stem cells for regenerative medicine
Hope
Why is this cell different from other cells?
The president's stem cells
The Dickey-Wicker enigma
The moral status of embryos
Creating good from immoral acts
Circumventing embryocide
My personalized beta cells for diabetes
Repairing brain cells in stroke victims
Reversing macular degeneration
My stem cells, my cancer
Reprogramming cells
My personalized disease cells
To clone or not to clone : that is the question
Patenting human embryonic stem cells is immoral and illegal (in Europe)
My embryo is auctioned on the internet
Here comes the egg man : oocytes & embryos.org
Human-animal chimeras and hybrids
Stem cell tourism
Social media meets science hype
Feminism and the commercialization of human eggs/embryos
Was my birth embryo me?
Embryos without ovaries
How my cells became drugs
A clinical trial for paralysis treatment.