Stem Cells, Biotechnology, and Human Rights: Implications for a Posthuman Future

If stem cell research led to therapies that changed the natural contours of human life, it would unsettle our ethical commitments, including the very notion of a human right, and encourage us to see the entire natural world, the human body along with it, as having the status only of material to be m...

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Main Author: Lauritzen, Paul (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2005
In: The Hastings Center report
Year: 2005, Volume: 35, Issue: 2, Pages: 25-33
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Summary:If stem cell research led to therapies that changed the natural contours of human life, it would unsettle our ethical commitments, including the very notion of a human right, and encourage us to see the entire natural world, the human body along with it, as having the status only of material to be manipulated.
ISSN:1552-146X
Contains:Enthalten in: Hastings Center, The Hastings Center report
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1353/hcr.2005.0026