Secular Humanist Bioethics and Regenerative Medicine

Ping Cheung Lo*

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    Abstract

    As Daniel Callahan perceptively observed some 20 years ago, issues and dilemmas in bioethics might be new as a result of remarkable advances in biomedical science, but the moral questions they raise are “among the oldest that human beings have asked themselves” (Callahan, 2004, p. 278). Regenerative Medicine is a cutting edge medicine, devoted to the repair of damaged, diseased, or degenerative organs through bioengineering cells, tissues, and organs. The technologies are new and still developing, and so are the moral controversies, for example, therapeutic cloning, cultivation of human embryonic stem cells, and the destruction of human embryos.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationThe Bioethics of Regenerative Medicine
    EditorsKing-Tak Ip
    PublisherSpringer, Dordrecht
    Pages47-62
    Number of pages16
    Edition1st
    ISBN (Electronic)9781402089671
    ISBN (Print)9781402089664, 9789048180387
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 24 Dec 2008

    Publication series

    NamePhilosophy and Medicine
    Volume102
    ISSN (Print)0376-7418
    ISSN (Electronic)2215-0080

    Scopus Subject Areas

    • Philosophy
    • Nursing (miscellaneous)
    • Health Policy

    User-Defined Keywords

    • Biological Nature
    • Human Cloning
    • Human Person
    • Mother Nature
    • Regenerative Medicine

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