Regenerative medicine, encompassing stem cells and tissue engineering, has attracted huge interest within commercial, clinical and government circles, and promises to change medicine itself. This book provides the first detailed examination and critical assessment of the field to be made by social science.

Autorentext
Itziar Alkorta, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain Inigo Miguel Beriain, University of Deusto and University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain Kathrin Braun, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany Haidan Chen, National University of Singapore Herbert Gottweis, University of Vienna, Austria Christian Haddad, University of Vienna, Austria Stuart Hogarth, King's College London, UK Beth Kewell, University of Stavanger, Norway Graham Lewis, University of York, UK Michael Morrison, University of Exeter, UK David Rodríguez-Arias, Spanish National Research Council (CCHS-CSIC), Spain Brian Salter, King's College London, UK Sándor, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary Susanne Schultz, Goethe University, Germany Marton Varju, University of Hull, UK

Inhalt

1. Introduction: The Boundaries and Mobilities of Regenerative Medicine; Andrew Webster 2. Regenerative Medicine at a Global Level: Current Patterns and Future Trends; Graham Lewis 3. Biocapital and Innovation Paths: The Exploitation of Regenerative Medicine; Michael Morrison, Stuart Hogarth, & Beth Kewell 4. Unruly Objects: Novel Innovation Paths and their Regulatory Challenge; Christian Haddad, Herbert Gottweis & Haidan Chen 5. Procuring Tissue: Regenerative Medicine, Oöcyte Mobilisation and Feminist Politics; Susanne Schultz and Kathrin Braun 6. Cloning and the Oviedo Convention: The Socio-cultural Construction of Regulation; Itziar Alkorta, Inigo Miguel Beriain, & David Rodriguez-Arias 7. The Multiplicity of Norms: the Bioethics and Law of Stem Cell Patents; Judit Sándor and Marton Varju 8. Governing Innovation Paths in Regenerative Medicine: the European and Global Struggle for Political Advantage; Brian Salter 9. Conclusion: Regenerative Medicine a New Paradigm?; Andrew Webster