- Title Pages
- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Harnessing Stem Cells for Regenerative Medicine
-
Dialogue 1 Hope -
Dialogue 2 Why is this Cell Different from Other Cells? -
Dialogue 3 The President’s Stem Cells -
Dialogue 4 The Dickey-Wicker Enigma -
Dialogue 5 The Moral Status of Embryos -
Dialogue 6 Creating Good from Immoral Acts -
Dialogue 7 Circumventing Embryocide -
Dialogue 8 My Personalized Beta Cells for Diabetes -
Dialogue 9 Repairing Brain Cells in Stroke Victims -
Dialogue 10 Reversing Macular Degeneration -
Dialogue 11 My Stem Cells, My Cancer -
Dialogue 12 Reprogramming Cells -
Dialogue 13 My Personalized Disease Cells -
Dialogue 14 To Clone or not to Clone -
Dialogue 15 Patenting Human Embryonic Stem Cells is Immoral and Illegal (In Europe) -
Dialogue 16 My Embryo is Auctioned on the Internet -
Dialogue 17 Here Comes the Egg Man -
Dialogue 18 Human-Animal Chimeras and Hybrids -
Dialogue 19 Stem Cell Tourism -
Dialogue 20 Social Media Meet Science Hype -
Dialogue 21 Feminism and the Commercialization of Human Eggs/Embryos -
Dialogue 22 Was My Birth Embryo Me? -
Dialogue 23 Embryos without Ovaries -
Dialogue 24 How My Cells Became Drugs -
Dialogue 25 A Clinical Trial for Paralysis Treatment - Epilogue
- Glossary
- Index
My Stem Cells, My Cancer
My Stem Cells, My Cancer
- Chapter:
- (p.67) Dialogue 11 My Stem Cells, My Cancer
- Source:
- Stem Cell Dialogues
- Author(s):
Sheldon Krimsky
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
This dialogue provides a fictional account of the Senate hearing where Dr. Rebecca Franklin and genetic oncologist Dr. Arthur Cosgrove testified. Cosgrove is trying to convince Senator Brad Furst, a senior member and chairman of the oversight subcommittee of the National Cancer Institute, to add a rider to the new National Institutes of Health (NIH) budget that allocates $500 million for research on cancer stem cells, which Cosgrove believes will revolutionize treatments for cancer. The hearing focuses on the NIH budget as well as recent work on cancer stem cells; the promise of stem cells as a potential cure for cancer; how scientists can prove that cancer stem cells are the real thing, what they can do with this knowledge to help people with cancer, and how it will help clinical oncology treat cancer; the medical applications of stem cells; the plausibility of the cancer stem cell hypothesis; and Franklin's notion of what she calls “stem cell pluralism”.
Keywords: stem cells, National Institutes of Health, research budget, stem cell research, cancer stem cells, cancer, clinical oncology, stem cell pluralism
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- Title Pages
- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Harnessing Stem Cells for Regenerative Medicine
-
Dialogue 1 Hope -
Dialogue 2 Why is this Cell Different from Other Cells? -
Dialogue 3 The President’s Stem Cells -
Dialogue 4 The Dickey-Wicker Enigma -
Dialogue 5 The Moral Status of Embryos -
Dialogue 6 Creating Good from Immoral Acts -
Dialogue 7 Circumventing Embryocide -
Dialogue 8 My Personalized Beta Cells for Diabetes -
Dialogue 9 Repairing Brain Cells in Stroke Victims -
Dialogue 10 Reversing Macular Degeneration -
Dialogue 11 My Stem Cells, My Cancer -
Dialogue 12 Reprogramming Cells -
Dialogue 13 My Personalized Disease Cells -
Dialogue 14 To Clone or not to Clone -
Dialogue 15 Patenting Human Embryonic Stem Cells is Immoral and Illegal (In Europe) -
Dialogue 16 My Embryo is Auctioned on the Internet -
Dialogue 17 Here Comes the Egg Man -
Dialogue 18 Human-Animal Chimeras and Hybrids -
Dialogue 19 Stem Cell Tourism -
Dialogue 20 Social Media Meet Science Hype -
Dialogue 21 Feminism and the Commercialization of Human Eggs/Embryos -
Dialogue 22 Was My Birth Embryo Me? -
Dialogue 23 Embryos without Ovaries -
Dialogue 24 How My Cells Became Drugs -
Dialogue 25 A Clinical Trial for Paralysis Treatment - Epilogue
- Glossary
- Index