Good science : the ethical choreography of stem cell research / Charis Thompson.
By: Thompson, Charis [author.]
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Contributor(s): IEEE Xplore (Online Service) [distributor.] | MIT Press [publisher.].
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BookSeries: Inside technology: Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : MIT Press, [2013]Distributor: [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : IEEE Xplore, [2013]Description: 1 PDF (x, 343 pages).Content type: text Media type: electronic Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780262319034.Subject(s): Stem cells -- Research -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States | Stem cells -- Research -- Government policy -- California | Stem cells -- Research -- United States -- Finance | Federal aid to medical research -- United States | Embryo | Ethics | Genetics | Genomics | Government | Guidelines | Health and safety | Hemorrhaging | History | Indexes | Industries | Investment | Knowledge engineering | Laboratories | Law | Materials | Medical diagnostic imaging | Medical treatment | Metals | Mice | Neuroscience | Organizations | Pain | Physics | Presses | Public healthcare | Radio frequency | Rhetoric | Safety | Speech | Standards | Stem cells | Substrates | Technological innovation | Terminology | World Wide Web | Anesthesia | Animals | Antenna measurements | Antenna radiation patterns | Azimuth | Bicycles | Bioinformatics | Biological system modeling | Biological tissues | Biomedical imaging | Blogs | Brain models | Buildings | Chapters | Cloning | Collaboration | Companies | Computers | Context | Diseases | Drugs | Economics | Educational institutionsGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version: No titleDDC classification: 616.02/774 Online resources: Abstract with links to resource Also available in print.Summary: After a decade and a half, human pluripotent stem cell research has been normalized. There may be no consensus on the status of the embryo -- only a tacit agreement to disagree -- but the debate now takes place in a context in which human stem cell research and related technologies already exist. In this book, Charis Thompson investigates the evolution of the controversy over human pluripotent stem cell research in the United States and proposes a new ethical approach for "good science." Thompson traces political, ethical, and scientific developments that came together in what she characterizes as a "procurial" framing of innovation, based on concern with procurement of pluripotent cells and cell lines, a pro-cures mandate, and a proliferation of bio-curatorial practices. Thompson describes what she calls the "ethical choreography" that allowed research to go on as the controversy continued. The intense ethical attention led to some important discoveries as scientists attempted to "invent around" ethical roadblocks. Some ethical concerns were highly legible; but others were hard to raise in the dominant procurial framing that allowed government funding for the practice of stem cell research to proceed despite controversy. Thompson broadens the debate to include such related topics as animal and human research subjecthood and altruism. Looking at fifteen years of stem cell debate and discoveries, Thompson argues that good science and good ethics are mutually reinforcing, rather than antithetical, in contemporary biomedicine.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-339) and index.
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After a decade and a half, human pluripotent stem cell research has been normalized. There may be no consensus on the status of the embryo -- only a tacit agreement to disagree -- but the debate now takes place in a context in which human stem cell research and related technologies already exist. In this book, Charis Thompson investigates the evolution of the controversy over human pluripotent stem cell research in the United States and proposes a new ethical approach for "good science." Thompson traces political, ethical, and scientific developments that came together in what she characterizes as a "procurial" framing of innovation, based on concern with procurement of pluripotent cells and cell lines, a pro-cures mandate, and a proliferation of bio-curatorial practices. Thompson describes what she calls the "ethical choreography" that allowed research to go on as the controversy continued. The intense ethical attention led to some important discoveries as scientists attempted to "invent around" ethical roadblocks. Some ethical concerns were highly legible; but others were hard to raise in the dominant procurial framing that allowed government funding for the practice of stem cell research to proceed despite controversy. Thompson broadens the debate to include such related topics as animal and human research subjecthood and altruism. Looking at fifteen years of stem cell debate and discoveries, Thompson argues that good science and good ethics are mutually reinforcing, rather than antithetical, in contemporary biomedicine.
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