Secular Humanist Bioethics and Regenerative Medicine

Ping Cheung LO

doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-8967-1_4

Secular Humanist Bioethics and Regenerative Medicine

Ping Cheung LO^*

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Department of Religion and Philosophy

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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 language	English
Title of host publication	The Bioethics of Regenerative Medicine
Editors	King-Tak Ip
Publisher	Springer, Dordrecht
Pages	47-62
Number of pages	16
Edition	1st
ISBN (Electronic)	9781402089671
ISBN (Print)	9781402089664, 9789048180387
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8967-1_4
Publication status	Published - 2009

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Name	Philosophy and Medicine
Volume	102
ISSN (Print)	0376-7418
ISSN (Electronic)	2215-0080

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Philosophy
Nursing (miscellaneous)
Health Policy

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Biological Nature
Human Cloning
Human Person
Mother Nature
Regenerative Medicine

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