This book provides a sophisticated yet accessible account of emerging trends in stem cell research and their accompanying ethical issues.

Zusatztext Advance praise: 'As the caravan of stem cell science has raced ahead at breakneck pace over the past decade! Insoo Hyun has been riding shotgun! facilitating some of our field's most critical deliberations! and challenging us to set a socially responsible course for this transformative research. In this wonderfully accessible book for both expert and layperson! Hyun navigates the dynamic relationship between philosophical and research ethics to dissect stem cell research with the philosopher's scalpel! applying the incisive edge of pure reason in perfect balance with the practical imperatives that this new science offers our society. Hyun speaks with an authoritative voice on science! medicine! policy! and philosophical realms in which answers are harder to come by than in the laboratory.' George Q. Daley! Director! Stem Cell Transplantation Program! Children's Hospital and Dana Farber Cancer Institute! and Professor! Harvard Medical School Informationen zum Autor Insoo Hyun is Associate Professor of Bioethics and Philosophy at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He is an internationally recognized authority on stem cell research ethics. He has advised governmental scientific bodies in the United States, Australia, Argentina, Norway, China, Singapore and South Korea on matters relating to the regulation of basic and translational stem cell research. In 2005, Dr Hyun was awarded a Fulbright Research Award by the U.S. Department of State to study the ethical, legal and cultural dynamics of human research cloning in South Korea. In 2006, he chaired the Subcommittee on Human Biological Materials Procurement for the International Embryonic Stem Cell Guidelines Task Force, a multinational, multidisciplinary working group for the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR). In 2007, he served as Co-Chairperson of the ISSCR Task Force on International Guidelines for the Clinical Translation of Stem Cells. He is also the past Chairperson of the ISSCR's Ethics and Public Policy Committee. His bioethics articles have appeared in Science, Nature, Cell Stem Cell, the Journal of Clinical Investigation, the Hastings Center Report and the Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, among many other publications. Klappentext This book provides a sophisticated yet accessible account of emerging trends in stem cell research and their accompanying ethical issues. Zusammenfassung Bioethics and the Future of Stem Cell Research provides a sophisticated yet accessible account of emerging trends in stem cell research and their accompanying ethical issues. Insoo Hyun encourages readers to look beyond the embryo debate to consider tough ethical issues involving animal research! clinical trials and stem cell tourism. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Prologue: the dogs bark but the caravan moves on; 2. A shifting terrain: the dynamics of stem cell research; 3. The golden bridle I: philosophical research ethics; 4. The golden bridle II: practical research ethics; 5. Pegasus and the Chimera: stem cell-based animal research; 6. The limit case: acute human/non-human neurological chimerism; 7. Human trials: testing stem cell-based biologics in patients; 8. Still the sky is blue: stem cell tourism and medical innovation....

Autorentext
Insoo Hyun is Associate Professor of Bioethics and Philosophy at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He is an internationally recognized authority on stem cell research ethics. He has advised governmental scientific bodies in the United States, Australia, Argentina, Norway, China, Singapore and South Korea on matters relating to the regulation of basic and translational stem cell research. In 2005, Dr Hyun was awarded a Fulbright Research Award by the U.S. Department of State to study the ethical, legal and cultural dynamics of human research cloning in South Korea. In 2006, he chaired the Subcommittee on Human Biological Materials Procurement for the International Embryonic Stem Cell Guidelines Task Force, a multinational, multidisciplinary working group for the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR). In 2007, he served as Co-Chairperson of the ISSCR Task Force on International Guidelines for the Clinical Translation of Stem Cells. He is also the past Chairperson of the ISSCR's Ethics and Public Policy Committee. His bioethics articles have appeared in Science, Nature, Cell Stem Cell, the Journal of Clinical Investigation, the Hastings Center Report and the Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, among many other publications.

Zusammenfassung
Bioethics and the Future of Stem Cell Research provides a sophisticated yet accessible account of emerging trends in stem cell research and their accompanying ethical issues. Insoo Hyun encourages readers to look beyond the embryo debate to consider tough ethical issues involving animal research, clinical trials and stem cell tourism.

Inhalt

1. Prologue: the dogs bark but the caravan moves on; 2. A shifting terrain: the dynamics of stem cell research; 3. The golden bridle I: philosophical research ethics; 4. The golden bridle II: practical research ethics; 5. Pegasus and the Chimera: stem cell-based animal research; 6. The limit case: acute human/non-human neurological chimerism; 7. Human trials: testing stem cell-based biologics in patients; 8. Still the sky is blue: stem cell tourism and medical innovation.