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This timely volume brings together essays by an internationally distinguished and diverse group of scholars. Contributors thoughtfully explore the ethical, public policy, and scientific implications of embryonic and adult stem cell research. Part one of the book offers a variety of scientific and public policy perspectives, including essays on stem cell plasticity and using umbilical cord blood as an alternative source of pluripotent stem cells. Part two vigorously examines the ethics of stem cell research and considers issues of social justice, morality, and public policy. Scientific alternatives, a natural law perspective regarding federal funding, and a discussion of the possible moral complicity of Catholic researchers are among the distinctive contributions made to the stem cell research debate by this collection. The objective and balanced discussions contained in this volume serve as an accessible introduction to the bioethical questions, issues, and problems surrounding stem cell research. Contributors: David A. Prentice, Kevin T. FitzGerald, S.J., John Langan, S.J., Ronald M. Kline, Ira B. Black, Dale Woodbury, Karen Lebacqz, Edward J. Furton, Lisa Sowle Cahill, Richard M. Doerflinger, M. Therese Lysaught.

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The book's essays are not in favor of stem cell reserach by RODOLFO NUNEZ (New York, NY United States)

3 Stars
March 08, 2006
The book Stem Cell Research: New Frontiers in Science and Ethics by Nancy E. is a collection of essays produced at the 2001 symposium, titled with the same name. This symposium attracted over 70 scientists, philosophers and theologians from across the United States for the three-day event. The idea of the symposium sponsors (Milwaukee's Marquette University, the Archdiocese of Milwaukee and the Madison-based Wisconsin Catholic Conference) was to discuss and educate about the scientific ethical and public policy implications of stem cell research. In my opinion, the essays were chosen because of what I think is affinity with the author and/or symposium's sponsor ideas. It will be nice if we could hear the other side of the story

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