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The Stem Cell Epistles
Michael A. Buratovich
其他書名
Letters to My Students about Bioethics, Embryos, Stem Cells, and Fertility Treatments
出版
Wipf and Stock Publishers
, 2013-08-20
主題
Science / Life Sciences / Biochemistry
Religion / Ethics
Religion / General
ISBN
1620322765
9781620322765
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=WW5NAwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Human embryos, it has been said, "have no muscles, nerves, digestive system, feet, hands, face, or brain; they have nothing to distinguish them as a human being, and if one of them died, no one would mourn as they would for one of us." Consequently, early human embryos are being dismembered in laboratories around the world to produce embryonic stem cells, which, we are told, are the tools that will lead to the next quantum leap in medicine. Should Christians support such small sacrifices for something that might potentially relieve the suffering of millions, or should we vigorously oppose it?
Developmental biologist and professor of biochemistry Michael Buratovich was asked such a question (among others) by his students. This book contains his measured answers and provides support from the scientific literature to substantiate his claims. He shows that embryonic stem cells are unnecessary, since the renaissance in regenerative medicine is occurring largely without them. Furthermore, he sets forth the scientific and historic case that the embryo is the youngest and most vulnerable member of humanity, and that ones such as these are precisely those whom the Christian church worked to protect in the past--and should champion in the present.