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What is Status of the Human Embryo

Chapter 13
Ethics in Research Practice and Innovation
A sum of characteristics and rights recognized to the human embryo, wether in vitro or in utero, by reference to its developmental stages and its genetic features specific to the human species, which gives it a distinct positioning (regardless of its prenatal developmental stage) in relation to a fully developed human being in legal, biological, ethical, religious, or philosophical systems;
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The Ethics of Embrionic Stem Cells Research: The Human Being in the Early Stages of Development – A “Medicine” or an End in Itself?
Alexandra Huidu (University of Oradea, Romania & LUMEN Research Center in Social and Humanistic Sciences, Romania)
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 20
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-6310-5.ch013
Abstract
Embrionic stem cells research, as opposed to hematopoietic stem cells research, has always stirred up many controversies of ethical nature that have projected their effects in the specialized doctrine of the domain of medical bioethics and law. Some of these controversies have been transposed at the legislative level (both by international normative acts and by the national laws of the states) while others are not yet de object of consensus. All that is not transposed by law remains in the exclusive sphere of ethics, so the ethical discussion in embryonic stem cell research is not only relevant for today's modern medicine but also of the utmost importance for a category of specialists in various research fields.
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