Book ID: CBB157943209

Good Science: The Ethical Choreography of Stem Cell Research (2013)

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Thompson, Charis (Author)


MIT Press


Publication Date: 2013
Edition Details: Book Series: Inside Technology
Physical Details: 360
Language: English

After a decade and a half, human pluripotent stem cell research has been normalized. There may be no consensus on the status of the embryo―only a tacit agreement to disagree―but the debate now takes place in a context in which human stem cell research and related technologies already exist. In this book, Charis Thompson investigates the evolution of the controversy over human pluripotent stem cell research in the United States and proposes a new ethical approach for “good science.” Thompson traces political, ethical, and scientific developments that came together in what she characterizes as a “procurial” framing of innovation, based on concern with procurement of pluripotent cells and cell lines, a pro-cures mandate, and a proliferation of bio-curatorial practices. Thompson describes what she calls the “ethical choreography” that allowed research to go on as the controversy continued. The intense ethical attention led to some important discoveries as scientists attempted to “invent around” ethical roadblocks. Some ethical concerns were highly legible; but others were hard to raise in the dominant procurial framing that allowed government funding for the practice of stem cell research to proceed despite controversy. Thompson broadens the debate to include such related topics as animal and human research subjecthood and altruism. Looking at fifteen years of stem cell debate and discoveries, Thompson argues that good science and good ethics are mutually reinforcing, rather than antithetical, in contemporary biomedicine. (Amazon)

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Essay Review Michael M.J. Fischer (June 2018) Book Review: Fungible Life: Experiment in the Asian City of Life, by Aihwa Ong; Good Science: The Ethical Choreography of Stem Cell Research, by Charis Thompson. East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal (pp. 225-230). unapi

Review Stefan Timmermans (April 2018) Review of "Good Science: The Ethical Choreography of Stem Cell Research". Technology and Culture (pp. 503-504). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Bak, Hee-Je
Coeckelbergh, Mark
Kim, Myungsim
Devolder, Katrien
Montinari, Maria Rosa
Keck, Frédéric
Concepts
Stem cells
Biology and ethics; bioethics
Ethics
Biotechnology
Science and politics
Medicine and ethics
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
19th century
Places
South Korea
Taiwan
Singapore
Japan
China
Asia
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