Embryo House

Author : Phil Rigsby
Publisher : Tate Publishing
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781607990260

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Embryo House by Phil Rigsby Pdf

In the not-too-distant future of Embryo House, the shockwaves of Roe v. Wade have wrought consequences that seven Supreme Court justices never imagined in 1973. The effects of the decision have trickled into the fabric of society without so much as a whisper of alarm. The law has decreed that life begins at birth, and now no one publicly debates it anymore. Enter Dr. Amos Kimbro, whose years of clandestine research have delivered conclusive proof that could shatter the new status quo. His lifelong goal to end abortion may finally come to fruition, but to achieve his dream he must live his nightmare. When a family secret is revealed, Dr. Kimbro and his son, David, find themselves on the run from the police, a pervasive g With powerful enemies at every turn, Ron Merritt must find a way to keep his client alive long enough to appear in court, but even he doesn't know the full truth. The final secret, once exposed, could open a door no one can close. government agency, and a radical pro-life group. Each has its own nefarious uses for Amos and David, and their only source of help is Ron Merritt, an attorney they aren't sure they can trust. Embryo House is a technological thriller set in a future that may be closer than anyone wants to believe, where secrets cannot be concealed and killing for profit takes on an entirely new meaning.

Author : Michael Joseph Mulkay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1997-02-13
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0521576830

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The Embryo Research Debate by Michael Joseph Mulkay Pdf

Scientific research involving human embryos was a major topic of public debate in Britain during the 1980s. Despite strong support from the scientific community, embryo research was initially condemned by many ordinary people as well as by special interest groups, and came close to being banned by Act of Parliament. Michael Mulkay describes the dynamics of the parliamentary struggle over the future of embryo research, focusing on such issues as: the clash between the anti-abortion and pro-research lobbies; the tactics of the Government; political ideology; the media's role; the importance of gender; religion; the impact of science fiction; the lure of medical advance; and the difficulty of maintaining ethical control. He explains how the advocates of embryo research eventually triumphed, and ends with an examination of the cultural tensions which linger after the debate.

Author : Thomas Banchoff
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0801461073

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Embryo Politics by Thomas Banchoff Pdf

Since the first fertilization of a human egg in the laboratory in 1968, scientific and technological breakthroughs have raised ethical dilemmas and generated policy controversies on both sides of the Atlantic. Embryo, stem cell, and cloning research have provoked impassioned political debate about their religious, moral, legal, and practical implications. National governments make rules that govern the creation, destruction, and use of embryos in the laboratory—but they do so in profoundly different ways. In Embryo Politics, Thomas Banchoff provides a comprehensive overview of political struggles about embryo research during four decades in four countries—the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and France. Banchoff’s book, the first of its kind, demonstrates the impact of particular national histories and institutions on very different patterns of national governance. Over time, he argues, partisan debate and religious-secular polarization have come to overshadow ethical reflection and political deliberation on the moral status of the embryo and the promise of biomedical research. Only by recovering a robust and public ethical debate will we be able to govern revolutionary life-science technologies effectively and responsibly into the future.

Author : Sarah Franklin,Emily Jackson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781040036044

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The 14 Day Rule and Human Embryo Research by Sarah Franklin,Emily Jackson Pdf

This assessment of Britain’s influential 14 day rule governing embryo research explores how and why it became the de facto global standard for research into human fertilisation and embryology, arguing that its influence and stability offers valuable lessons for successful biological translation. One of the most important features of the 14 day rule, the authors claim, is its reliance on sociological as well as ethical, legislative, regulatory and scientific principles. The careful integration of social expectations and perceptions, as well as sociological definitions of the law and morality, into the development of a robust legislative infrastructure of ‘human fertilisation and embryology’, enabled what has come to be known as the Warnock Consensus – a solid and enduring public acceptance that has enabled successive parliamentary approval for controversial areas of scientific research in the UK, such as stem cell research and mitochondrial donation, for over 30 years. These important sociological insights are increasingly relevant to new biotranslational challenges such as human germline gene editing and the use of AI assisted technologies in human reproduction. As the legislation around the 14 day rule begins to be reviewed worldwide, the important lessons we can learn from its global and enduring significance will apply not only to future legislation governing embryo research, but to the future of biological translation more widely. An important volume for those interested in reproductive studies, biogovernance and biological translation, it is suitable for researchers, clinicians and students in medicine, biosciences, sociology, and science and technology studies.

Author : Bin Wu
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789535135111

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Embryo Cleavage by Bin Wu Pdf

Embryo cleavage experiences a series of critical events and remarkable epigenetic modifications, especially morphological change and gene expression. The development of current assisted reproductive technology has created some new observations and novel discoveries in cleavage embryos. This book updates some new technologies and methods on the study of cleavage embryos to select high-quality embryos for transfer and improve embryo implantation and pregnancy. Major contents include embryo cleavage morphokinetics based on time-lapse imaging, gene expression of cleavage embryo and noninvasive assessment, and improving embryo cleavage technology. Thus, this book will greatly add new information for embryologists to select good-quality embryos for transfer to improve human embryo transfer pregnancy rate.

Author : Ronald M. Green
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2001-06-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780199761890

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The Human Embryo Research Debates by Ronald M. Green Pdf

Research on the early human embryo has long been recognized as essential to progress in a host of biomedical areas from reproductive medicine to the treatment of pediatric cancers. Now, with the possibility of stem cell research and cell replacement therapies, embryo research holds out the promise of cures for many serious disease conditions such as diabetes and Alzheimer's disease. Despite its importance, however, human embryo research has met powerful opposition. Drawing on his experience as a member of the NIH's Human Embryo Research Panel, Green offers a first-hand account of the embryo research debates. In telling this story, he periodically pauses to reflect on some of the leading philosophical challenges posed by embryo research and new interventions at the start of life. Among the questions he examines are: What is the impact of new biological information on our thinking about life's beginning? May parents risk injuring a child in order to have it? What role should religion play in shaping biomedical policy in a controversial area like this? This is a fascinating insider's account of one of the most important, if unsuccessful, recent efforts to come to terms with a controversial area of scientific research.

Author : Catriona A. W. McMillan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108844109

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The Human Embryo in vitro by Catriona A. W. McMillan Pdf

Proposes that the human embryo in vitro is in a unique 'legal stasis' between potential person and useful research artefact.

Author : Calum MacKellar
Publisher : SCM Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780334055211

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The Image of God, Personhood and the Embryo by Calum MacKellar Pdf

Why are human embryos so important to many Christians? What does theology say concerning the moral status of these embryos? Answers to these questions can only be obtained by considering the manner in which Christian theology understands the great theme of the image of God. This book examines the most important aspects in which this image, and the related Christian notion of personhood, can be used in the context of theological arguments relating to the moral status of the human embryo. Thoughtful in approach and ecumenical in perspective, the author combines a thorough knowledge of the science of embryology with a broad knowledge of the theological implications. Part I Historical and Contemporary Christian Perspectives 1 The Moral Status of the Embryo 2 The Image of God 3 Being a Person from a Christian Perspective Part II The Image of God, Personhood and the Embryo 4 Creation and the Embryo 5 Incarnation and the Embryo 6 Substantive Aspects and the Embryo 7 Relational Aspects and the Embryo 8 Functional Aspects and the Embryo Conclusion Appendix: The Moral Status of New Kinds of Embryo

Author : Donald Evans,Neil Pickering
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1996-03-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9041102086

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Conceiving the Embryo by Donald Evans,Neil Pickering Pdf

This volume of essays, together with its companion "Creating the Child: " "The Ethics, Law and Practice of Assisted Procreation" (Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, 1996, ISBN 90-411-0207-8) is the result of a concerted action in the BIOMED programme of the European Commission, which was coordinated by the Editor. Clinicians, lawyers and philosophers explore the theoretical and practical problems presented by the new technologies in assisted human reproduction in Eastern, Central and Western Europe. The central question of the status of the human embryo is examined in the light of recent biological discoveries and cultural and legal dissonance within and between the various countries in Europe.

Author : Brent Waters,Ronald Cole-Turner
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2003-07-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1589013301

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God and the Embryo by Brent Waters,Ronald Cole-Turner Pdf

Discussions and debates over the medical use of stem cells and cloning have always had a religious component. But there are many different religious voices. This anthology on how religious perspectives can inform the difficult issues of stem cell research and human cloning is essential to the discussion. Contributors reflect the spectrum of Christian responses, from liberal Protestant to evangelical to Roman Catholic. The noted moral philosopher, Laurie Zoloth, offers a Jewish approach to cloning, and Sondra Wheeler contributes her perspective on both Jewish and Christian understandings of embryonic stem cell research. In addition to the discussions found here, God and the Embryo includes a series of official statements on stem cell research and cloning from religious bodies, including the Roman Catholic Church, the Orthodox Church in America, the United Methodist Church, the Southern Baptist Convention, the United Church of Christ, the Presbyterian Church (USA), and the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America and the Rabbinical Council of America. "Human Cloning and Human Dignity: An Ethical Inquiry," from the statement of the President's Council on Bioethics, concludes the book. The debates and the discussions will continue, but for anyone interested in the nuances of religious perspectives that make their important contributions to these ethically challenging and important dialectics, God and the Embryo is an invaluable resource.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Fertilization in vitro, Human
ISBN : UCR:31210024955120

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Human Embryo Transfer by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433081664595

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The Overland Monthly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : West (U.S.)
ISBN : UCAL:B3549959

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Overland Monthly by Anonim Pdf

Author : D. Solter,D. Beyleveld,M.B. Friele,J. Holówka,H. Lilie,R. Lovell-Badge,C. Mandla,U. Martin,R. Pardo Avellaneda
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783662051177

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Embryo Research in Pluralistic Europe by D. Solter,D. Beyleveld,M.B. Friele,J. Holówka,H. Lilie,R. Lovell-Badge,C. Mandla,U. Martin,R. Pardo Avellaneda Pdf

Recent advances in techniques and understanding in the fields of genetics, embryology and reproductive biology have opened up new ways to treat a wide range of medical problems. They range from new options for infertility treatment and pre-implantation genetic diagnosis to stem-cell-based therapies for debilitating diseases. Since all these approaches involve the manipulation of human gametes, embryos or embryonic cells, and could also permit more contentious uses, they have stimulated a controversial debate as to what aims are desirable and to what extent experiments on human embryos are morally permissible, if permissible at all. The situation is further complicated by the fact that scientific projects are increasingly realized through international co-operation and that patients are increasingly ready to seek morally contentious medical treatment wherever it is available and thus to bypass national legislation. In view of this situation the Europäische Akademie assembled a temporary interdisciplinary project group in which scientists from universities and non-university research organizations in Europe working on the relevant subjects were brought together and charged with establishing a knowledge base and providing suggestions for long-term solutions that would be acceptable for society. Presented here are the results of this project, ranging from a discussion of the theoretical and practical possibilities in human-embryo experimentation and its alternatives in research on adult stem cells, a comparison of the situations and prospects of regulation of embryo research in Europe, a survey of European public attitudes, and a philosophical analysis of the arguments and argumentative strategies used in the debate.

Author : Linda Schwartz
Publisher : Creative Teaching Press
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2004-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780881603729

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Primary Science Quiz Whiz by Linda Schwartz Pdf

"The questions cards in this book are grouped into 10 categories of 24 question cards each. The concepts presented are ideal for preparing your students for standardized tests. There are numerous ways to use this book. Initially, you can open the book to any page and ask a few questions to start your mornint, to begin each language lesson, or to fill those last minutes before lunch, recess, or the end of the day. More creative ideas are offered, for when you have more time."