People's Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier

by Ruha Benjamin

Book Overview

Stem cell research has sparked controversy and heated debate since the first human stem cell line was derived in 1998. Too frequently these debates devolve to simple judgments-good or bad, life-saving medicine or bioethical nightmare, symbol of human ingenuity or our fall from grace-ignoring the people affected. With this book, Ruha Benjamin moves the terms of debate to focus on the shifting relationship between science and society, on the people...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804782962
• ISBN13: 9780804782968
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"