Report of the Committee of Inquiry Into Human Fertilisation and Embryology
Author: Great Britain. Committee of Inquiry into Human Fertilisation and Embryology
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 128
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Great Britain. Committee of Inquiry into Human Fertilisation and Embryology
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 128
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2005-09-15
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 0309096537
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Since 1998, the volume of research being conducted using human embryonic stem (hES) cells has expanded primarily using private funds because of restrictions on the use of federal funds for such research. Given limited federal involvement, privately funded hES cell research has thus far been carried out under a patchwork of existing regulations, many of which were not designed with this research specifically in mind. In addition, hES cell research touches on many ethical, legal, scientific, and policy issues that are of concern to the public. This report provides guidelines for the conduct of hES cell research to address both ethical and scientific concerns. The guidelines are intended to enhance the integrity of privately funded hES cell research by encouraging responsible practices in the conduct of that research.
Author: Graeme Laurie
Publisher:
Published: 2021-06-09
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 1108576095
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The definitive reference guide to designing scientifically sound and ethically robust medical research, considering legal, ethical and practical issues.
Author: Catriona A. W. McMillan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-04-01
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1108945163
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Human Embryo in vitro explores the ways in which UK law engages with embryonic processes under the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 (as amended), the intellectual basis of which has not been reconsidered for almost thirty years. McMillan argues that in regulating 'the embryo' – that is, a processual liminal entity in itself - the law is regulating for uncertainty. This book offers a fuller understanding of how complex biological processes of development and growth can be better aligned with a legal framework that purports to pay respect to the embryo while also allowing its destruction. To do so it employs an anthropological concept, liminality, which is itself concerned with revealing the dynamics of process. The implications of this for contemporary regulation of artificial reproduction are fully explored, and recommendations are offered for international regimes on how they can better align biological reality with social policy and law.
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2020-08-31
Total Pages: 155
ISBN-13: 0309676681
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Because of the recent advances in embryo modeling techniques, and at the request of the Office of Science Policy in the Office of the Director at the National Institutes of Health, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, hosted a 1-day public workshop that would explore the state of the science of mammalian embryo model systems. The workshop, which took place on January 17, 2020, featured a combination of presentations, panels, and general discussions, during which panelists and participants offered a broad range of perspectives. Participants considered whether embryo model systems - especially those that use nonhuman primate cells - can be used to predict the function of systems made with human cells. Presentations provided an overview of the current state of the science of in vitro development of human trophoblast. This publication summarizes the presentation and discussion of the workshop.
Author: Peter Singer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780521435888
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →New developments in reproductive technology have made headlines since the birth of the world's first in vitro fertilization baby in 1978. But is embryo experimentation ethically acceptable? What is the moral status of the early human embryo? And how should a democratic society deal with so controversial an issue, where conflicting views are based on differing religious and philosophical positions? These controversial questions are the subject of this book, which, as a current compendium of ideas and arguments on the subject, makes an original contribution of major importance to this debate. Peter Singer is the author of many books, including Practical Ethics (CUP, 1979), Marx (Hill & Wang, 1980), and Should the Baby Live? (co-authored with Helga Kuhse, Oxford U.P., 1986).
Author: Sarah Franklin
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-05-24
Total Pages: 159
ISBN-13: 104003604X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This assessment of Britain’s influential 14 day rule governing embryo research explores how and why it became the de facto global standard for research into human fertilisation and embryology, arguing that its influence and stability offers valuable lessons for successful biological translation. One of the most important features of the 14 day rule, the authors claim, is its reliance on sociological as well as ethical, legislative, regulatory and scientific principles. The careful integration of social expectations and perceptions, as well as sociological definitions of the law and morality, into the development of a robust legislative infrastructure of ‘human fertilisation and embryology’, enabled what has come to be known as the Warnock Consensus – a solid and enduring public acceptance that has enabled successive parliamentary approval for controversial areas of scientific research in the UK, such as stem cell research and mitochondrial donation, for over 30 years. These important sociological insights are increasingly relevant to new biotranslational challenges such as human germline gene editing and the use of AI assisted technologies in human reproduction. As the legislation around the 14 day rule begins to be reviewed worldwide, the important lessons we can learn from its global and enduring significance will apply not only to future legislation governing embryo research, but to the future of biological translation more widely. An important volume for those interested in reproductive studies, biogovernance and biological translation, it is suitable for researchers, clinicians and students in medicine, biosciences, sociology, and science and technology studies.
Author: Andrew Steele
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 2021-03-23
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 0385544936
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“A fascinating look at how scientists are working to help doctors treat the aging process itself, helping us all to lead longer, healthier lives.” —Sanjay Gupta, MD Aging—not cancer, not heart disease—is the underlying cause of most human death and suffering. The same cascade of biological changes that renders us wrinkled and gray also opens the door to dementia and disease. We work furiously to conquer each individual disease, but we never think to ask: Is aging itself necessary? Nature tells us it is not: there are tortoises and salamanders who are spry into old age and whose risk of dying is the same no matter how old they are, a phenomenon known as “biological immortality.” In Ageless, Andrew Steelecharts the astounding progress science has made in recent years to secure the same for humans: to help us become old without getting frail, to live longer without ill health or disease.
Author: United States. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Ethics Advisory Board
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 142
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Andrea Boggio
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-01-09
Total Pages: 681
ISBN-13: 1108499872
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A survey of the regulation of human germline genome modification in eighteen countries and the emerging international standards.