Stem Cells, Human Embryos and Ethics Interdisciplinary Perspectives - Østnor, Lars.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2008)
Biological and Medical Perspectives -- The Moral Status of Human Embryos with Special Regard to Stem Cell Research and Therapy -- Stem Cells: Sources and Clinical Applications -- Alternative Means to Obtain Pluripotent Stem Cells -- Neurogenesis and Potential Use of Stem Cells from Adult Human Brain -- Can We Use Human Embryonic Stem Cells to Treat Brain and Spinal Cord Injury and Disease? -- Stem Cells, Embryos and Ethics: Is There a Way Forward? -- Social and Political Perspectives -- An Intercultural Perspective on Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research -- Human Embryo Research: The European Perspective -- Stem Cells, Pluralism and Moral Empathy -- Philosophical Perspectives -- The Potentiality Argument and Stem Cell Research -- Can the Distinction between the Moral and the Descriptive Support a Full Moral Standing of an Embryo? -- The Beginning of Individual Human Life -- Embryonic Stem Cell Research - Arguments of the Ethical Debate in Germany -- The Question of Human Cloning in the Context of the Stem Cell Debate -- Theological Perspectives -- Stem Cells from Human Embryos for Research? The Theological Discussion Within Christianity -- Theological Arguments in the Human Stem Cell Debate: A Critical Evaluation -- Human Embryos and Embryonic Stem Cells - Ethical Aspects.
Keywords: Developmental biology; Ethics; Medicine; Religion; Developmental Biology; Ethics; Biomedicine, general; Religious Studies, general