Chapter 1
Introduction
Joachim Huarte and Antoine Suarez
Chapter 2
Breakthrough in stem cell research?
The reprogramming of somatic cells to pluripotent stem cells. Overview and outlook.
Boris Greber and Hans Schöler
Chapter 3
Pre-implantation stages of human development: the biological and moral status of early embryos
Maureen Condic
Chapter 4
Complete moles and parthenotes are not organisms
Nicanor Austriaco
Chapter 5
Embryos grown in culture deserve the same moral status as embryos after implantation.
Joachim Huarte and Antoine Suarez
Chapter 6
Distinguishing embryos from non-embryos
Patrick Lee
Chapter 7
Is the human embryo a person? On the status of cell entities produced through ANT
Pablo Requena
Chapter 8
Does a human being have a right to life?
The debate on embryo research in Germany as a case study
Manfred Spieker
Chapter 9
Interspecies mixtures and the status of humanity.
Neville Cobbe
Chapter 10
The boundaries of humanity: the ethics of human-animal chimeras in cloning and stem cell research.
William Hurlbut
Chapter 11
Is this cell entity a human being?
Neural activity, spiritual soul, and the status of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs).
Antoine Suarez