Stem cells : new frontiers in science & ethics / editors, Muireann Quigley, Sarah Chan, John Harris.

Singapore ; Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific, [2012]

xiv, 282 pages ; 24 cm

New frontiers in stem cell science & ethics : current technology & future challenges / Muireann Quigley, Sarah Chan, and John Harris -- The monopoly of moral status in debates on embryonic stem cell research / Sorcha Uí Chonnachtaigh -- The construction of the embryo and implications for law / Sheelagh McGuinness -- Legal regulation of human stem cell technology / Loane Skene -- Human embryos in stem cell research : property and recompense / Sarah Devaney -- Against the discarded-created distinction in embryonic stem cell research / Katrien Devolder -- Stem cell therapies & benefiting from the fruits of banned research / Muireann Quigley -- Who do you call a hypocrite? : stem cells and comparative hypocritology / Søren Holm -- Stem cell research and same-sex reproduction / Thomas Douglas, Catherine Harding, Hannah Bourne, and Julian Savulescu -- The permissibility of recruiting patients with spinal cord injury for clinical stem cell trials / Anna Pacholczyk and John Harris.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-272) and index.