The Matrix of Stem Cell Research: An Approach to Rethinking Science in Society

ISBN-13: 9780367726836 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 232 str.

Christine Hauskeller; Arne Manzeschke; Anja Pichl

Opis

This multi-disciplinary book presents the current state of stem cell science in society, twenty years on from the first cultivation of human embryonic stem cells and ten years after the invention of genetically altered human stem cells.

Spis treści

1. Knowledge and Normativity: A Matrix of Disciplines and Practices  2. Big Promise, Big Business: The Socio-Cultural and Regulatory Dynamics of Stem Cell Tourism  3. The Bioeconomies of Stem Cell Research  4. Science, Ethics and Patents: Ethically-Motivated Barriers to the Patenting of the Results of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research  5. Current Developments in Human Stem Cell Research and Clinical Translation  6. In-vivo Reprogramming: A New Era in Regenerative Medicine  7. Modeling Human Neurodegeneration Using Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells  8. Stem Cell Biology: A Conceptual Overview  9. What Keeps an Outdated Stem Cell Concept Alive? A Search for Traces in Science and Society  10. Mapping Laboratories and Pinpointing Intentions: The Entanglement of Audit and Reproducibility in the STAP Case  11. The Ethics of Embryonic Stem Cell Research in Turkey: Exploring the Moral Reasoning of Muslim Scholars  12. Balancing Social Justice and Risk Management in the Governance of Gene Drive Technology: Lessons from Stem Cell Research

O autorze

Christine Hauskeller is Professor of Philosophy, teaching philosophy of science, bioethics, and feminist theory at the University of Exeter, UK. She conducts empirical philosophical studies on the processes of knowledge production in the life sciences and their intersections with different forms of valuation and normativity. Prof Hauskeller has published widely on stem cell research for the past twenty years and has led many projects on the subject area. Appointments to advisory and governance boards include the UK BBSRC Science and Society Panel, and the German Federal Government’s Central Ethics Committee Stem Cell Research.

Arne Manzeschke is Professor of Anthropology and Ethics at the Lutheran University of Applied Sciences Nuremberg, Germany, Director of the Institute of Ethics and Anthropology in Health Care, President of Societas Ethica, European Society for research in ethics, and he is vice chairman of the Bavarian Ethics Commission on Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis. Arne was a member of ForIPS – Bavarian Research Network Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells. He conducts ethical research in the field of bioethics and the ethics of technology, especially digitalization and the human-machine-interaction.

Anja Pichl is a doctoral student at Bielefeld University, Germany, in the DFG research training group 2073 Integrating Ethics and Epistemology of Scientific Research. Her dissertation investigates the limits of biological knowledge using the example of stem cell research. Together with Arne Manzeschke she organized an international and interdisciplinary summer school on pluripotent stem cells in 2015, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).