Stem Cell Century: Law and Policy for a Breakthrough Technology
336 pp, $29.95
New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-3001-2292-3
- Alan G. Williams, JD, ReviewerFlorida State University College of LawTallahassee awilliams2413@hotmail.com
Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text.
- KEYWORDS:
- HEALTH POLICY
- LEGISLATION
- STEM CELLS
- TRANSPLANTATION
The Preface to Stem Cell Century: Law and Policy for a Breakthrough Technology demonstrates the controversial, often adversarial subject the authors have undertaken. What began as a book coauthored by 2 UCLA law professors has devolved into a predominantly solo effort due to “differences in our substantive views and preferred style of presentation.” If 2 colleagues cannot reach agreement to complete a book on the topic of stem cell research and its societal ramifications, then the fractious stem cell debate presently simmering will certainly boil over as the issue comes to the forefront of the rhetoric associated with the presidential election of 2008. Coauthor Russell Korobkin—who takes sole responsibility for the entire book save the coauthored chapter 4—boldly asserts in the preface that of the many books recently published on the subject of stem cells, “[n]one of them is like this one.” Stem Cell Century delivers on this assertion, thoroughly …
