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Fritz Jahr’s bioethics and the Stem Cell Research
Michael Cheng-tek Tai
; Chungshan Medical University, Taiwan
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The medicine of 21st century seems to give humankind a new hope for treating most diseases through the wonder of stem cells. Medical scientists have been working hard to find out how to apply these pluripotent stem cells to enhance our health. There however, ethical concern exists that the extraction of the primordial stem cell from the blastocyst will cause the withering of this potential life. There have been ethical debates about what life is and how we can ethically
utilize this life-saving cell to save human life. This paper will consider what Fritz Jahr, the coiner of Bioethics, sees about life and then discuss what stem cell is and what is involved in this research. Since the definition of life has been diversified among bioethicists, this paper will seek theological interpretation as well as bioethical view toward do-no-harm and do-good. This paper will conclude saying that the further study of a new way to heal human diseases must continue, but also we need to proceed with the stem cell research with extreme caution.
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153731
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Datum izdavanja:
1.12.2015.
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