• Stem Cells
• 34 min
  1. Stem cells: immortality or a healthy old age?

  • Dr. Jim McWhir
• 40 min
  2. Mouse embryonic stem cells

  • Prof. Sir Martin Evans
• Regenerative Medicine (I)
• 26 min
  3. Stem cells and regenerative medicine

  • Prof. Dame Julia Polak
  • Dr. Anne Bishop
• 27 min
  4. Tissue engineering: the science, the technology and the industry

  • Prof. Robert Nerem
• 41 min
  5. Clinical potential of stem cells

  • Prof. John Martin
• 11 min
  6. Genes and cells therapy

  • Prof. Nagy Habib
• Regenerative Medicine (II)
• 39 min
  7. Stem cell therapy for the treatment of heart failure

  • Dr. James Willerson
• 35 min
  8. Vascular tissue engineering

  • Prof. Robert Nerem
• 43 min
  9. Stem cell biology and neurodegenerative diseases

  • Dr. Ronald McKay
• 17 min
  10. Cartilage stem cells: tools for joint repair?

  • Prof. Charles Archer
• Biotechnology
• 46 min
  11. Stem cell bioprocessing

  • Dr. Sakis Mantalaris
• 68 min
  12. Nanotechnology for tissue engineering

  • Prof. Thomas J. Webster
• 37 min
  13. Materials for tissue engineering

  • Dr. Molly Stevens
  • Mr. Julian George
• Commercialization
• 36 min
  14. Commercialisation of stem cells

  • Dr. Gareth Roberts
• Ethical and Regulatory Considerations
• 44 min
  15. Stem cell ethics

  • Prof. Dame Anne McLaren
• 23 min
  16. The human fertilisation and embryology authority

  • Dame Suzi Leather
• Archived Lectures *These may not cover the latest advances in the field
• 40 min
  17. Bioethics & politics of human embryonic stem cell science in the EU's 6th framework programme

  • Prof. Brian Salter

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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 December 26, 2024, from https://doi.org/10.69645/LYPB2395.
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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.