Ethics of Embryonic Stem Cell Research

Zusatztext Devolders study is a tour de force, exhibiting real skill and imagination in the use of analogies to test our moral intuitions...The Ethics of Embryonic Stem Cell Research is a solid contribution to our stem cell debates. Neither partisan nor committed to advocacy for any side, it displays epistemic honesty and exhibits the value of philosophical analysis at its best. Informationen zum Autor Katrien Devolder obtained a PhD in Philosophy at Ghent University in 2006, after which she was awarded a six-year Postdoctoral Research Fellowship by the Research Foundation Flanders. She conducted her postdoctoral work at the Bioethics Institute Ghent, Department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences, at Ghent University, as well as during long-term academic visits at several other universities, including the University of Oxford, Harvard University, and Princeton University. Between 2012 and 2014 she worked as an Assistant Professor at Ghent University, and from October 2014 onwards, she will be a Marie Curie Fellow at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford. Klappentext Embryonic stem cell research holds great promise for biomedical research, but involves the destruction of human embryos. Katrien Devolder explores the tension between the view that embryos should never be deliberately harmed, and the view that such research must go forward. She provides an in-depth analysis of major attempts to resolve the problem. Zusammenfassung Embryonic stem cell research holds great promise for biomedical research, but involves the destruction of human embryos. Katrien Devolder explores the tension between the view that embryos should never be deliberately harmed, and the view that such research must go forward. She provides an in-depth analysis of major attempts to resolve the problem.

Product details

• Authors: Katrien Devolder, Katrien (Ghent University) Devolder, Devolder Katrien
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.01.2015
• EAN: 9780199547999
• ISBN: 978-0-19-954799-9
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Issues in Biomedical Ethics; Issues in Biomedical Ethics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Medical research, MEDICAL / Ethics, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, MEDICAL / Research, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, SCIENCE / Ethics, Bioethics, Bio-ethics, Ethical issues: scientific & technological developments, Medical ethics and professional conduct, Medical ethics & professional conduct