Whose view of life? : embryos, cloning, and stem cells / Jane Maienschein.

By:

Maienschein, Jane

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 342 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780674040434
0674040430
9780674011700
0674011708

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Whose view of life?.DDC classification:

176 22

LOC classification:

QP277 .M356 2003eb

NLM classification:

2003 O-368
QS 620

Other classification:

XC 2811

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Contents:

Introduction -- From the beginning -- Interpreting embryos, understanding life -- Genetics, embryology, and cloning frogs -- Recombinant DNA, IVF, and abortion politics -- From genetics to genomania -- Facts and fantasies of cloning -- Hopes and hypes for stem cells -- Conclusion.

Summary: Saving lives versus taking lives; the public regards human embryo research in these stark terms, as a battleground of extremes, a war between science and ethics. Precisely that simplistic dichotomy, propagated by vociferous opponents of abortion and proponents of medical research, is 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 the legal, social and ethical issues at the heart of what has become a political controversy. Maienschein's multidisciplinary perspective will provide a starting point for further attempts to answer this dilemma.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-328) and index.

Saving lives versus taking lives; the public regards human embryo research in these stark terms, as a battleground of extremes, a war between science and ethics. Precisely that simplistic dichotomy, propagated by vociferous opponents of abortion and proponents of medical research, is 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 the legal, social and ethical issues at the heart of what has become a political controversy. Maienschein's multidisciplinary perspective will provide a starting point for further attempts to answer this dilemma.