Cloning And Stem Cell Research Legal Documents

Author : Relinde Van Laar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Embryonic stem cells
ISBN : 905850753X

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Cloning and Stem Cell Research: 3, pts.1 & 2. Legislative developments in cloning research in the United States of America : The President's Council on Bioethics - Cloning by Relinde Van Laar Pdf

Stem cells are cells found in most, if not all, multi-cellular organisms. They are characterized by the ability to renew themselves through cell division and differentiation into a diverse range of specialized cell types. Stem cells can now be grown and transformed into specialized cells with characteristics consistent with cells of various tissues, such as muscles or nerves, through cell culture. For this reason, their use in medical therapies has been proposed. In particular, embryonic cell lines, autologous embryonic stem cells generated through therapeutic cloning, and highly plastic adult stem cells from the umbilical cord blood or bone marrow are touted as promising candidates. As promising as this may sound, under the Bush regime, stem cell research in the United States was kept on a very tight leash. Bush limited the various uses of stem cell research enormously through the adaptation of strict legislation. The United States' former president even pronounced that he would use his veto, if the senate would stretch the stem cell legislation beyond his prescribed limits. Now, a whole new era opens for the United States, since Barack Obama already made known he will make important changes to the existing legislation concerning stem cell research. In our viewpoint, this is necessary to put America back on the world map whilst discovering the possibilities of curing diseases with the help of stem cell research. In order to compare the new strategy of Obama to the old path prescribed by Bush regarding stem cell research, insight in existing stem cell legislation is necessary. Therefore, this collection of legislation on stem cell research provides a complete and in-depth overview of the current state of affairs concerning this topic in America. This collection is vital for every legal academic scholar, especially now that the United States are marking the progress of stem cell research as one of their top priorities.

Author : Willem-Jan van der Wolf,Relinde van Laar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-31
Category : Embryonic stem cells
ISBN : 9058507122

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Cloning and Stem Cell Research - Legal Documents by Willem-Jan van der Wolf,Relinde van Laar Pdf

Stem cells are cells found in most, if not all, multi-cellular organisms. They are characterized by the ability to renew themselves through cell division and differentiation into a diverse range of specialized cell types. Stem cells can now be grown and transformed into specialized cells with characteristics consistent with cells of various tissues, such as muscles or nerves, through cell culture. For this reason, their use in medical therapies has been proposed. In particular, embryonic cell lines, autologous embryonic stem cells generated through therapeutic cloning, and highly plastic adult stem cells from the umbilical cord blood or bone marrow are touted as promising candidates. As promising as this may sound, under President Bush's administration, stem cell research in the United States was kept on a very tight leash. The administration limited the various uses of stem cell research enormously through the adaptation of strict legislation. The president even pronounced that he would use his veto, if the senate would stretch the stem cell legislation beyond his prescribed limits. Now, a whole new era opens for the US, since President Barack Obama has already made known that he will make important changes to the existing legislation concerning stem cell research. In the viewpoint of this book's contributors, this is necessary to put America back on the world map while discovering the possibilities of curing diseases with the help of stem cell research. In order to compare the new strategy of Obama to the old path prescribed by Bush regarding stem cell research, insight in existing stem cell legislation is necessary. Therefore, this collection of legislation on stem cell research provides a complete and in-depth overview of the current state of affairs concerning this topic in the US. The book will be vital for every legal academic scholar, especially now that the US is marking the progress of stem cell research as one of its top priorities.

Author : Russell Korobkin,Stephen R. Munzer
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780300122923

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Stem Cell Century by Russell Korobkin,Stephen R. Munzer Pdf

"Stem Cell Century provides a very clear analysis of the policy issues around cloning and stem cells in biomedicine, on the basis of a sound scientific understanding of the underlying biology." Ian Wilmut, director, Edinburgh University Centre for Regenerative Medicine, and creator of "Dolly" the lamb, the world's first cloned mammal. From the bookjacket.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and Human Resources
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Medical
ISBN : STANFORD:36105064034593

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Human Cloning and Embryonic Stem Cell Research After Seoul by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and Human Resources Pdf

Author : Hwa A Lim
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006-07-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789814477567

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Multiplicity Yours: Cloning, Stem Cell Research, And Regenerative Medicine by Hwa A Lim Pdf

This is the first book of its kind that treats reproduction, cloning, stem cell research and regenerative medicine in an integrative manner.Touching on the science, social aspects, legal and ethical issues, and the current status of cloning, stem cell research and regenerative medicine, this self-contained book is an excellent source for introducing newcomers to the field or broadening the perspectives of experts and practitioners.In contrast to existing books on the market, which treat each topic in isolation or sensationalize the areas, this book takes an integrative and balanced approach. The treatment is easy to grasp and clear illustrations, graphics and photos explain the key concepts. The book explains the diverse topics from a scientific angle, a social perspective, and as a natural business development. The coverage also includes the political and ethical issues as well as many other thought-provoking scenarios.

Author : Joshua Weiser
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031597503

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Embryonic Stem Cells and the Law by Joshua Weiser Pdf

Author : United States. National Bioethics Advisory Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Bioethics
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030034273419

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Ethical Issues in Human Stem Cell Research: Commissioned papers by United States. National Bioethics Advisory Commission Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Human rights
ISBN : STANFORD:36105134431886

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Global Human Rights Law Collection: Documents, pt. 2 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Calvin Wai-Loon Ho
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781911299646

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Juridification in Bioethics by Calvin Wai-Loon Ho Pdf

What is 'legal' about bioethics? What are the ideas and artefacts that bioethics encompasses, and how are they related to law? What is the role of law in bioethics? In this work, Calvin Ho attempts to address these questions in the context of the governance of human pluripotent stem cell research. In essence, he argues that the hybridization of law, through processes, devices and techniques of juridification, has helped to constitute bioethics as a public sphere and an emergent civic epistemology. Drawing on his multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork and on Actor-Network-Theory, Ho explains how the law has, through bioethics, contributed to the scientific and public understanding of human pluripotent stem cell research and its artefacts, particularly the embryo and human-animal combinations. Although the focus of his work is on bioethical developments in Singapore over a period of more than 15 years, parallel developments in key jurisdictions (especially the United States of America and the United Kingdom) and in international science policy are also evaluated. It is through appreciating how it has progressed that bioethics will be better able to engage with future challenges presented by advances in human embryo research and gene editing techniques, among others.

Author : Cynthia B. Cohen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007-06-25
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780190294021

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Renewing the Stuff of Life by Cynthia B. Cohen Pdf

Stem cell therapy is ushering in a new era of medicine in which we will be able to repair human organs and tissue at their most fundamental level- that of the cell. The power of stem cells to regenerate cells of specific types, such as heart, liver, and muscle, is unique and extraordinary. In 1998 researchers learned how to isolate and culture embryonic stem cells, which are only obtainable through the destruction of human embryos. An ethical debate has raged since then about the ethics of this research, usually pitting pro-life advocates vs. those who see the great promise of curing some of humanity's most persistent diseases. In this book Cynthia Cohen agrees that we need to work toward a consensus on the issue of how we treat the embryo. But more broadly she claims that we need to transform and expand the ethical and policy debates on stem cells (adult and embryonic). This important and much-needed book is both a primer and a means by which to understand the implications of this research. Cohen starts by introducing readers to the basic science of stem cell research, and the core ethical questions surrounding the embryo. She then expands the scope of the debate, looking at the moral questions that will crop up down the line, such as e.g. the use of therapeutic cloning to overcome the body's immune resistance to stem cells; the ethics of using animals to test stem cells; how to disentangle federal and state legal and regulatory policies in pursuit of a coherent national policy; and how to develop an ethics of stem cell research that will accommodate new techniques and controversies that we cannot even foresee now. Her final chapter develops a concrete plan for an oversight system for this research. This is the first single-author book that addresses the many broad ethical and legal issues related to stem cells, and it should be of great interest to bioethicists, researchers, clinicians, philosophers, theologians, lawyers, policy makers, and general readers.

Author : National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Sciences Policy,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Life Sciences,Committee on Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005-09-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309096539

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Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research by National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Sciences Policy,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Life Sciences,Committee on Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Pdf

Since 1998, the volume of research being conducted using human embryonic stem (hES) cells has expanded primarily using private funds because of restrictions on the use of federal funds for such research. Given limited federal involvement, privately funded hES cell research has thus far been carried out under a patchwork of existing regulations, many of which were not designed with this research specifically in mind. In addition, hES cell research touches on many ethical, legal, scientific, and policy issues that are of concern to the public. This report provides guidelines for the conduct of hES cell research to address both ethical and scientific concerns. The guidelines are intended to enhance the integrity of privately funded hES cell research by encouraging responsible practices in the conduct of that research.

Author : Jane Maienschein
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780674040434

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Whose View of Life? by Jane Maienschein Pdf

Saving lives versus taking lives: These are the stark terms in which the public regards human embryo research--a battleground of extremes, a war between science and ethics. Such a simplistic dichotomy, encouraged by vociferous opponents of abortion and proponents of medical research, is precisely what Jane Maienschein seeks to counter with this book. Whose View of Life? brings the current debates into sharper focus by examining developments in stem cell research, cloning, and embryology in historical and philosophical context and by exploring legal, social, and ethical issues at the heart of what has become a political controversy. Drawing on her experience as a researcher, teacher, and congressional fellow, Jane Maienschein provides historical and contemporary analysis to aid understanding of the scientific and social forces that got us where we are today. For example, she explains the long-established traditions behind conflicting views of how life begins--at conception or gradually, in the course of development. She prepares us to engage a major question of our day: How are we, as a 21st-century democratic society, to navigate a course that is at the same time respectful of the range of competing views of life, built on the strongest possible basis of scientific knowledge, and still able to respond to the momentous opportunities and challenges presented to us by modern biology? Maienschein's multidisciplinary perspective will provide a starting point for further attempts to answer this question.

Author : Andrea L. Bonnicksen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015055863883

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Crafting a Cloning Policy by Andrea L. Bonnicksen Pdf

Ever since Dolly, the Scottish lamb, tottered on wobbly legs into our consciousness-followed swiftly by other animals: first, mice; then pigs that may provide human transplants, and even an ordinary house cat - thoughts have flown to the cloning of human beings. Legislators rushed to propose a ban on a technique that remains highly hypothetical, although some independent researchers have announced their determination to pursue the possibilities. Political scientist and well-known expert on reproductive issues, Andrea L. Bonnicksen examines the political reaction to this new-born science and the efforts to construct cloning policy. She also looks at issues that relate to stem cell research, its even newer sibling, and poses a key question: how does the response to Dolly guide us as we manage innovative reproductive technologies in the future?

Author : Australia. Parliament. House of Representatives. Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Human cloning
ISBN : OCLC:223201839

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Human Cloning: Scientific, Ethical and Regulatory Aspects of Human Cloning and Stem Cell Research by Australia. Parliament. House of Representatives. Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs Pdf

Author : Muireann Quigley,Sarah Chan,John Harris
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789814374248

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Stem Cells by Muireann Quigley,Sarah Chan,John Harris Pdf

Fiction. LGBT Studies. Finalist for the American Library Association GLBT Fiction Award. "Guess deftly performs the parlor trick of handling several different voices, switching fluidly from perceptive Caddie to the clipped cadence of masculine Jo to jaded Selena. This Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore for the 1990s celebrates the differences between people without fudging the loneliness that these entail. Guess's attempts to put a Midwestern spin on magical realism are blessedly rare: in a book loaded with so many natural surprises, any supernatural extras would be gilt on the lily"—Publishers Weekly.