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1. Introduction
2. Overview
3. The global cultural context
4. Cultural politics and bioethics
5. The political qualities of bioethics
6. The components of cultural trading
7. Regulatory options
8. National regulatory policies
9. Double morality
10. The debate commences
11. The EU response to the UK report
12. Towards a moral economy
13. Covert political negotiation and cultural trading
14. Institutional manoeuvring
15. Including the cultural dimension
16. The difficulties of cultural compromise
17. An apparent endgame
18. A new policy arena: human tissues
19. Opposition and the absence of consensus
20. Challenge to the hands off approach
21. The moral economy and cultural politics
22. Future policy making and ethics
23. The political technology of bioethics

Topics Covered

• Cultural politics and bioethics
• Regulatory options in human ESC science
• National differences
• Ethical debates in the European Parliament
• Conflict over the human embryo
• Politicians versus experts
• The Human Tissues Directive
• Bioethicists as an emerging power group

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Series:

• Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

Categories:

• Cell Biology
• Clinical Practice

Talk Citation

Salter, B. (2007, October 1). Bioethics & politics of human embryonic stem cell science in the EU's 6th framework programme [Video file]. In The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection, Henry Stewart Talks. Retrieved April 19, 2024, from https://hstalks.com/bs/252/.
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Publication History

• Published on October 1, 2007
• Archived on February 25, 2021

Financial Disclosures

• Prof. Brian Salter has not informed HSTalks of any commercial/financial relationship that it is appropriate to disclose.