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The bioethics of regenerative medicine / edited by King-Tak Ip.

Other author/creatorIp, King-Tak.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info[New York] : Springer, ©2009.
Descriptionviii, 186 pages ; 24 cm.
Subject(s)
Series Philosophy and medicine ; v. 102
Philosophy and medicine v. 102. ^A965
Contents Part I Introduction -- Introduction: regenerative medicine at the heart of the culture wars / King-Tak Ip -- Part II Prospect of Being Posthuman: the metaphysical roots of the moral contoversies -- Regenerative medicine after humanism: puzzles regarding the use of embryonic stem cells, germ-line genetic engineering, and the immanent pursuit of human flourishing / H. Tristram Englehardt -- Genetic manipulation and the resurrection body / Robert Song -- Secular humanist bioethics and regenerative medicine / Ping-cheung Lo -- Radical disagreements of Chinese views on fetal life and implications for bioethics / Nie Jing-Bao -- Part III A human Embryonic stem-cell research: the geography of persistent disagreement -- Using and misusing embryos: the ethical debates / Brenda Almond -- Trading lives or changing human nature: the strange dilemma of embryo-based regenerative medicine / Glen Mcgee -- Therapeutic cloning, frspect for human embryo, and symbolic value / Jonathan Chan -- Part IV A Search for a larger picture: regenerative medicine and the moral enterprise -- Medical biotechnologies: are there effective ethical arguments for policy making? / Ruiping Fan and Erika Yu -- Extending human life: to what end? / Brent Waters -- Ethics of Regenerative medicine: beyond humanism and posthumanism / Gerald P. Mckenny -- Virtue in vitro: virtue ethics as an alternative to questions of moral status / Justin Ho and Garret Merriam -- Index.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN9781402089664
ISBN140208966X

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