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

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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 Schöler

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

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