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ArticleTheoretical medicine and bioethics2010

"Just one animal among many?" Existential phenomenology, ethics, and stem cell research.

Norman K Swazo

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Article in Theoretical medicine and bioethics, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Norman K SwazoCollege of Science and General Studies, Alfaisal University, P.O. Box 50927, Riyadh 11533, Saudi Arabia. nswazo@alfaisal.edu

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Abstract

Stem cell research and associated or derivative biotechnologies are proceeding at a pace that has left bioethics behind as a discipline that is more or less reactionary to their developments. Further, much of the available ethical deliberation remains determined by the conceptual framework of late modern metaphysics and the correlative ethical theories of utilitarianism and deontology. Lacking, to any meaningful extent, is a sustained engagement with ontological and epistemological critiques, such as with "postmodern" thinking like that of Heidegger's existential phenomenology. Some basic "Heideggerian" conceptual strategies are reviewed here as a way of remedying this deficiency and adding to ethical deliberation about current stem cell research practices.

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Ethics, ResearchPhilosophy, MedicalAnimalsBiomedical ResearchEmbryo ResearchEthics, MedicalExistentialismHumansMetaphysicsStem Cell Transplantation

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PMID20521117
PMCPMC2883080

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