Open AccessTruth in Science and Medicine: The Hope and Hype of Stem Cell Therapies
Author(s) -
Józef Dulak
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
relacje międzykulturowe
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2544-2546
pISSN - 2544-2139
DOI - 10.12797/rm.02.2021.10.02
Subject(s) - deception , stem cell , engineering ethics , medicine , environmental ethics , psychology , social psychology , philosophy , biology , genetics , engineering
The article examines the practice of cell therapies, often named as stem cell therapies. For the general public this is recognized as promising treatment for many diseases, offering hope for many people to restore health to themselves or their loved ones. However, despite the enormous potential that this type of treatment holds, it has its limitations. The tension between hope, science, truth and deception can come to the fore especially when someone is fighting for their life. Moral and ethical issues play a key role in such cases, serving as guideposts obscured, however, by information noise.