Charis Thompson - Good Science: The Ethical Choreography of Stem Cell Research

Good Science

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Good Science

The Ethical Choreography of Stem Cell Research

Charis Thompson

The MIT Press
Cambridge, Massachusetts
London, England

2013 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Thompson, Charis.

Good science : the ethical choreography of stem cell research / Charis Thompson, Inside Technology.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-262-02699-4 (hardcover : alk. paper)

ISBN 978-0-262-31904-1 (retail e-book)

1. Stem cellsResearchMoral and ethical aspectsUnited States. 2. Stem cellsResearchGovernment policyCalifornia. 3. Stem cellsResearchUnited StatesFinance. 4. Federal aid to medical researchUnited States. I. Title.

QH588.S83.T48 2013

[R853.H8]

616.02774dc23

2013024261

d_r1

Acknowledgments

I thank family, friends, colleagues, and students for their inspiring intellectual work and for their commitment to the issues of the day. I am especially fortunate to have worked with the faculty, staff, and students of the units that together make up the Gender and Womens Studies Department, the Center for Science, Technology, and Medicine in Society, and the Center for Race and Gender at UC Berkeley. I am grateful to the Deans of the Social Sciences and Humanities, the Committee on Research at UC Berkeley, and the Mellon Foundation for supporting the research upon which this book is based. I also much appreciate the support from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine and from UC Berkeleys former Chancellor, Robert Birgeneau, and Executive Vice Chancellor, George Breslauer, for the Stem Cells and Society program.