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Ethical and social issues of embryonic stem cell technology
Author(s) -
Cregan K.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
internal medicine journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.596
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-5994
pISSN - 1444-0903
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-5994.2004.00766.x
Subject(s) - medicine , cloning (programming) , embryonic stem cell , human cloning , engineering ethics , environmental ethics , stem cell , internet privacy , genetics , philosophy , biology , computer science , engineering , gene , programming language
Therapeutic cloning is debated as a cure for a host of diseases in the developed world. The likely source for the materials for therapeutic cloning, human ova, would be poor women and women from the developing world. The ethics and potential social consequences inherent in this technology are fraught and encourage the com modification and abstraction of one of the fundamental conditions of human life. (Intern Med J 2005; 35: 126–127)