Table Of ContentTHE BIOETHICS OF REGENERATIVE MEDICINE
Philosophy and Medicine
VOLUME 102
Founding Co-Editor
Stuart F. Spicker
Senior Editor
H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., Department of Philosophy, Rice University,
and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
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Lisa M. Rasmussen, Department of Philosophy, University of North Carolina
at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina
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Bowling Green, Ohio
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New Jersey
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Contents
Contributors................................................ vii
PartI Introduction
Introduction:RegenerativeMedicineattheHeart
oftheCultureWars ...................................... 3
King-TakIP
PartII ProspectofBeingPosthuman:TheMetaphysicalRootsofthe
MoralControversies
1 RegenerativeMedicineafterHumanism:PuzzlesRegarding
theuseofEmbryonicStemCells,Germ-LineGeneticEngineering,
andtheImmanentPursuitofHumanFlourishing................ 13
H.TristramEngelhardt
2 GeneticManipulationandtheResurrectionBody ............... 27
RobertSong
3 SecularHumanistBioethicsandRegenerativeMedicine .......... 47
Ping-CheungLo
4 RadicalDisagreementsofChineseViewsonFetalLife
andImplicationsforBioethics .............................. 63
NieJing-Bao
PartIII AHumanEmbryonicStem-CellResearch:TheGeography
ofPersistentDisagreement
5 UsingandMisusingEmbryos:TheEthicalDebates.............. 77
BrendaAlmond
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6 TradingLivesorChangingHumanNature:TheStrangeDilemma
ofEmbryo-BasedRegenerativeMedicine...................... 93
GlennMcgee
7 TherapeuticCloning,RespectforHumanEmbryo,
andSymbolicValue ...................................... 107
JonathanChan
PartIV ASearchforaLargerPicture:RegenerativeMedicine
andtheMoralEnterprise
8 MedicalBiotechnologies:AreThereEffectiveEthicalArguments
forPolicyMaking?....................................... 119
RuipingFanandErikaYu
9 ExtendingHumanLife:ToWhatEnd? ....................... 135
BrentWaters
10 TheEthicsofRegenerativeMedicine:BeyondHumanism
andPosthumanism....................................... 155
GeraldP.Mckenny
11 VirtueInVitro:VirtueEthicsasanAlternativetoQuestions
ofMoralStatus ......................................... 171
JustinHoandGarretMerriam
Index..................................................... 181
Contributors
BrendaAlmond DepartmentofPhilosophy,UniversityofHull,Hull,UK
NieJing-Bao SeniorLecturer,BioethicsCentre,UniversityofOtago,Dunedin,
New Zealand; Adjunct Professor/Faculty Associate, Wuhan and Beijing
Universities,China
JonathanChan DepartmentofReligionandPhilosophy,BaptistUniversityof
HongKong
H.TristramEngelhardt ProfessorofPhilosophy,RiceUniversity,Houston,
TX, USA; Professor Emeritus, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX,
USA, [email protected]
Ruiping Fan Associate Professor, Department of Public and Social Administra-
tion,CityUniversityofHongKong,HongKong,PRC,[email protected]
JustinHoDepartmentofPhilosophy,RiceUniversity,Houston,TX,USA
Ping-CheungLo DepartmentofReligionandPhilosophy,HongKongBaptist
University,KowloonTong,HongKong,PRC
GlennMcGee Editor-in-Chief,TheAmericanJournalofBioethics,Professor,
Alden March Bioethics Institute, Albany Medical College, and Principal,
Bioethics Education Network LLC [bene], 559 Highwood CIR, Albany,
NewYork
Gerald P. Mckenny Department of Theology, University of Notre Dame,
NotreDame,IN46556,USA,[email protected]
Garret Merriam is Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University
ofSouthernIndiana,Evanville,IN,USA
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Robert Song Department of Theology and Religion, Durham University,
Durham,UK
Brent Waters Jerry and Mary Joy Stead Associate Professor of Christian
Social Ethics, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, 2121 Sheridan
Road,Evanston,IL60201,[email protected]
ErikaYu isformerlywiththeGovernanceinAsiaResearchCentre(GARC)at
theCityUniversityofHongKong,Kowloon,HongKong,SAR
Part I
Introduction
Description:Regenerative medicine is rich with promethean promises. The use of human embryonic stem cells in research is justified by its advocates in terms of promises to cure a wide range of diseases and disabilities, from Alzheimer’s and Parkinsonism to the results of heart attacks and spinal cord injuries
