Will Embryonic Stem Cells Change Health Policy?

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

7-2010

Journal Title

Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics

ISSN

1073-1105

DOI

10.1111/j.1748-720X.2010.00493.x

Abstract

Essays on stem cell policy seem to fall into three categories. Some essays in this collection are about logic and principles. Others are about practices and beliefs. The former group draws lines and defends them, a normative project. The latter group attempts to explain the lines that already exist, a descriptive project that may have important normative goals. Still other essays, by scientists, are about growing stem cell lines instead of drawing them.

The purpose of this essay is to situate the lines being drawn around stem cell science in the larger landscape of health policy. I am interested in the things that cause health policy to take particular directions and the consequences of those directions for cost, access, and quality — all of which are determined in part by biomedical innovations such as those potentially derived from stem cells.

First Page

342

Last Page

351

Num Pages

10

Volume Number

38

Issue Number

2

Publisher

American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics

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