The 'Healthy' Embryo: Social, Biomedical, Legal and Philosophical Perspectives

, by Edited by Jeff Nisker , FranÃ§oise Baylis , Isabel Karpin , Carolyn McLeod , Roxanne Mykitiuk

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ISBN: 9780521748131 | 0521748135
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Copyright: 1/29/2010

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The ever increasing use of assisted human reproduction technology and the use of human embryos to derive stem cells will ensure that the ethical, legal, and social issues explored in The 'Healthy' Embryo: social, Biomedical, legal and Philosophical Perspectives will remain the focus of public attention and subjects of debate and research across many academic disciplines.

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Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. xiv
Human embryos
What is an embryo and how do we know?	p. 1
Human embryos: donors' and non-donors' perspectives on embryo moral status	p. 16
Property, privacy and other legal constructions of human embryos	p. 32
Informed consent for the age of pluripotency and embryo triage: from alienation, anonymity and altruism to connection, contact and care	p. 45
Creating 'human' embryos
Interspecies somatic cell nuclear transfer: not yet 'healthy' human embryos	p. 61
Parthenogenesis and other strategies to create human embryos for stem cell research and regenerative medicine	p. 70
Creating humanesque embryos	p. 80
'Healthy' human embryos
A visual dialogue on 'healthy' human embryos from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries	p. 97
Social determinants of 'health' of embryos	p. 116
Taking care of the 'health' of preconceived human embryos or constructing legal harms	p. 136
Public understandings of a 'healthy' embryo: a citizen deliberation on preimplantation genetic diagnosis	p. 151
'Healthy' human embryos and research
Donating fresh versus frozen embryos to stem cell research: in whose interests?	p. 171
Embryo health and embryo research	p. 187
'Healthy' human embryos and reproduction
Making embryos healthy or making healthy embryos: how much of a difference between prenatal treatment and selection?	p. 201
Facing up to the disability critique of the use of genetic testing and selection to combat disease	p. 220
'Healthy' human embryos and symbolic harm	p. 233
Saviour siblings, other siblings and whole organ donation	p. 251
About the contributors	p. 266
Index	p. 276
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The 'Healthy' Embryo: Social, Biomedical, Legal and Philosophical Perspectives

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