What Are Stem Cells? : Definitions at the Intersection of Science and Politics.
In recent years political, religious, and scientific communities have engaged in an ethical debate regarding the development of and research on embryonic stem cells. Does the manipulation of embryonic stem cells destroy human life? Or do limitations imposed on stem cell research harm patients who mi...
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a What Are Stem Cells? : |b Definitions at the Intersection of Science and Politics. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Acknowledgments; 1. Science-Based Controversies and Idioms of Public Argument; 2. Timely and Powerful: Defining Stem Cells through Appeals to Application; 3. Abortion and the Embryo: Right-to-Life Arguments as a Source for Rhetorical Invention; 4. Blastocysts, Spare Embryos, and Embryo Adoption: Redefining the Beginnings of Human Life; 5. Power, Potency, and Plasticity: Hierarchies of Stem Cells and Their Inherent Ambiguities; 6. Stalemate and the Idioms of Science-Based Controversy: George W. Bush's Manichean Idiom and Barack Obama's Return to a Scientistic Idiom. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 7. Scientistic and Manichean Idioms of Public Argument; Notes; Works Cited; Index. | |
| 520 | |a In recent years political, religious, and scientific communities have engaged in an ethical debate regarding the development of and research on embryonic stem cells. Does the manipulation of embryonic stem cells destroy human life? Or do limitations imposed on stem cell research harm patients who might otherwise benefit? John Lynch's What Are Stem Cells? identifies the moral stalemate between the rights of the embryo and the rights of the patient and uses it as the framework for a larger discussion about the role of definitions as a key rhetorical strategy in the debate. In the case of. | ||
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