Is This Cell a Human Being?: Exploring the Status of Embryos, Stem Cells and Human-Animal Hybrids

By Antoine Suarez

Chapter 1

Introduction

Joachim Huarte and Antoine Suarez

Chapter 2

Breakthrough in stem cell research?

The reprogramming of somatic cells to pluripotent stem cells. Overview and outlook.

Boris Greber and Hans Sch?ler

Chapter 3

Pre-implantation stages of human development: the biological and moral status of early embryos

Maureen Condic

Chapter 4

Complete moles and parthenotes are not organisms

Nicanor Austriaco

Chapter 5

Embryos grown in culture deserve the same moral status as embryos after implantation.

Joachim Huarte and Antoine Suarez

Chapter 6

Distinguishing embryos from non-embryos

Patrick Lee

Chapter 7

Is the human embryo a person? On the status of cell entities produced through ANT

Pablo Requena

Chapter 8

Does a human being have a right to life?

The debate on embryo research in Germany as a case study

Manfred Spieker

Chapter 9

Interspecies mixtures and the status of humanity.

Neville Cobbe

Chapter 10

The boundaries of humanity: the ethics of human-animal chimeras in cloning and stem cell research.

William Hurlbut

Chapter 11

Is this cell entity a human being?

Neural activity, spiritual soul, and the status of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs).

Antoine Suarez

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642443982
• ISBN13: 9783642443985
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 209 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"