Stem cell dialogues : a philosophical and scientific inquiry into medical frontiers / Sheldon Krimsky.

New York : Columbia University Press, [2015]

xxxviii, 238 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Harnessing stem cells for regenerative medicine -- Hope -- Why is this cell different from other cells? -- The president's stem cells -- The dickey-wicker enigma -- The moral status of embryos -- Creating good from immoral acts -- Circumventing embryocide -- My personalized beta cells for diabetes -- Repairing brain cells in stroke victims -- Reversing macular degeneration -- My stem cells, my cancer -- Reprogramming cells -- My personalized disease cells -- To clone or not to clone : that is the question -- Patenting human embryonic stem cells is immoral and illegal -- (in Europe) -- My embryo is auctioned on the internet -- Here comes the egg man : oocytes and embryos.org -- Human-animal chimeras and hybrids -- Stem cell tourism -- Social media meets science hype -- Feminism and the commercialization of human eggs/embryos -- Was my birth embryo me? -- Embryos without ovaries -- How my cells became drugs -- A clinical trial for paralysis treatment.