The Global Politics of Human Embryonic Stem

Regenerative medicine is a field characterized by a global struggle for scientific, economic and national advantage. Drawing on a wide range of interviews, primary and secondary sources, this book investigates the dynamic interactions between national regulatory formation and the global biopolitics of regenerative medicine and human embryonic stem cell science. Today governments are under intense competitive pressure to fund and develop attractive national environments for embryonic stem cell science, which promises both to improve the health and productivity of ageing populations and to develop therapies for global health markets.

Herbert Gottweis is at the Department of Political Science, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. Brian Salter is a Professor of Health Services Research and Director of Research in Nursing and Midwifery at the School of Health, University of East Anglia, UK. Catherine Waldby is at the School of Sociology & Anthropology, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, The University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia.

List of Tables	p. vi
Acknowledgements	p. vii
Series Editors' Preface	p. viii
Introduction: Stem Cell Research and Global Biopolitics	p. 1
Globalization, Stem Cell Markets and National Interests	p. 22
Embryos, Oocytes, Cell Lines: HESC Science and the Human Tissue Market	p. 35
Global Regulation and Local Policy Narratives: Making Sense of Dolly	p. 56
From Dolly to Therapies? Stem Cell Regulations in the Making I - The United Kingdom and the United States	p. 86
From Dolly to Therapies? Stem Cell Regulations in the Making II - Germany, Italy, Japan and South Korea	p. 105
Bioethics and the Global Moral Economy of HESC Science	p. 127
HESC Science and the Cultural Politics of the EU's Framework Programmes	p. 148
Contested Governance: Uncertainty and Standardization in Research and Patenting	p. 169
Conclusions: Towards the Global Politics of Stem Cell Research	p. 187
Notes	p. 195
References	p. 198
Index	p. 220
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