Biomedical Odysseys: Fetal Cell Experiments from Cyberspace to China

by Priscilla Song

Book Overview

Thousands of people from more than eighty countries have traveled to China since 2001 to undergo fetal cell transplantation. Galvanized by the potential of stem and fetal cells to regenerate damaged neurons and restore lost bodily functions, people grappling with paralysis and neurodegenerative disorders have ignored the warnings of doctors and scientists back home in order to stake their futures on a Chinese experiment. Biomedical Odysseys...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691174776
• ISBN13: 9780691174778
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 11.1"