- 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
Here Comes the Egg Man
Here Comes the Egg Man
Oocytes & Embryos.org
- Chapter:
- (p.111) Dialogue 17 Here Comes the Egg Man
- Source:
- Stem Cell Dialogues
- Author(s):
Sheldon Krimsky
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
In this dialogue, Dr. Rebecca Franklin is having a conversation with Viktor Morovsky, a Russian immigrant, and Arthur Worthington III, a venture capitalist, regarding the sale or auction of human eggs. Morovsky dreams of making a great deal of money in the American capitalist system as a distributor for oocytes that people who have undergone in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures no longer want. His company, Oocytes & Embryos.Org, is preparing to go international and aims to be the largest single provider of oocyte sources for embryonic stem cells. Worthington has invested lucratively in biotechnology and has made billions in BioVenture Associates. Here Morovsky, Worthington, and Franklin discuss the technical aspects of Morovsky's business plan; the international market for selling oocytes and IVF embryos; how Markovsky and Worthington will deal with the activist groups that are in opposition to paying egg donors; the possibility that poor women will find a way to sell eggs through the black market; and the ethics of selling eggs for IVF and research.
Keywords: human eggs, oocytes, in vitro fertilization, embryonic stem cells, biotechnology, selling, egg donors, ethics, research, auction
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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