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What is Stem Cells Research

Chapter 13
Ethics in Research Practice and Innovation
A field of medical research that uses the potential of stem cells to specialize functionally under the impetus of environmental factors in order to find treatments for disease amelioration or eradication, replacement of diseased organs in the body, testing of experimental drugs, identification of causality of diseases, etc.
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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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