edited by Benjamin J Capps (National University of Singapore, Singapore) & Alastair V Campbell (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

This book represents the coming together of a number of internationally renowned scholars from science, philosophy, law and social science. Each author presents a distinctive and critical account of the current ethical, social and jurisprudential issues concerning stem cell science: together covering both its research beginnings, and the future translation into the clinical setting. Original to this volume is an emphasis on the inter-state implications of developments in stem cell science from the perspective of a truly global collaboration of leading authors. Academics and policy-makers will find it an invaluable contribution to the socio-political and ethical discourse of stem cell science.

• Stem Cell Technologies: From Research Regulation to Regulations to Clinical Applications
• An Early Embryo Biopolicy: A Tale of Two Countries — Czech and Slovak Stem Cell Policies
• Not a "Person" or a "Thing": Controversy Surrounding the Moral and Legal Status of Human Embryos in Japan
• Stem Cell Research and Its Clinical Applications in China: Interactions Between Science, Ethics and Society
• Rejuvenated Federalism: State-Based Stem Cell Research Policy in the United States
• Legal Imperialism in the Regulation of Stem Cell Research and Therapy: The Problem of Extraterritorial Jurisdiction
• New Developments in Stem Cell Science: Global Challenges to Informed Consent
• Reasonable Suffering: The Application of Stem Cell Technologies to Nonhuman Animals
• Hybrid Embryos — Ethics, Law and Rhetoric in the UK's Policy
• Sociological Reflections on Ethics, Embryonic Stem Cells and Translational Research
• From Stem Cell Science to Stem Cell Medicine: Breakthroughs and Barriers in Getting Therapies to the Patient
• Rhetoric, Power and Legitimacy in Public Discourse: A Critical Analysis of the Public Discourse Surrounding the Review of Embryo Research and Cloning Legislation in Australia in 2005-6
• The Ontological Status of the Nonhuman Chimera
• Documents: "Gifts" of Form in the Stem Cell Debate