This book provides an authoritative and comprehensive overview on the ethical issues surrounding the most promising and most controversially discussed topic in modern biotechnology and medicine, stem cell therapy. It is written by a scientist who has been involved in the basic research of stem cell therapy for over 20 years and was part of the initial experimental studies demonstrating benefits and damage repair using stem cells, and who also is a clinical cardiologist involved in the clinical studies of stem cell therapy in patients with mainly cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases from its early stage until now.
The book starts with a brief overview of the history of stem cell research, the administrative and regulatory aspects including the federal governmental changes with every political administration over the last 20 years, and the stand of the FDA on research and therapy. It also discusses the issues of medical tourism, patient funded studies, false marketing claims, and the ethical and religious aspects of stem cell research, anti aging research, and immortality research including the Roman Catholic Churches view on embryonic stem cells.
Ethics of Modern Stem Cell Research and Therapy will be a valuable resource for clinicians, physicians, and researchers who are looking to either conduct or use stem cell therapies. It offers a one-stop guide to the current regulations of the FDA as well as the potential that stem cell therapies have on many degenerative diseases.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1. A Brief Discourse on Ethics.- Chapter 2. Introduction to Stem Cell Interest.- Chapter 3. Questions to Ask.- Chapter 4. A Brief History of Stem Cell Research.- Chapter 5. Clinical Studies.- Chapter 6. Unapproved Stem Cell Businesses.- Chapter 7. Politics and Federal Stem Cell Research Funding.- Chapter 8. Alternatives to Embryonic Stem Cells.- Chapter 9. Ethical Concerns Using iPS.- Chapter 10. Ethics and Guidelines on Stem Cell Research.- Chapter 11. The FDA on Stem Cell Therapy.- Chapter 12. Stem Cell Tourism.- Chapter 13. Public View and Knowledge of Stem Cell Research.- Chapter 14. Religious Ethical Issues and Stem Cell Research.- Chapter 15. Is it ethical to conduct stem cell research?.- Chapter 16. Is it ethical to use stem cells for certain diseases?.- Chapter 17. Is it ethical to fight aging?.- Chapter 18. Is immortality research ethical?.- Chapter 19. Final Thoughts on the Ethics of Current Stem Cell Research and Therapy.- Chapter 20. Bibliography.
About the Author :
Dr Ernst R von Schwarz, MD, PhD, is a triple board certified internist, cardiologist, heart transplant cardiologist and interventional cardiologist in Los Angeles, and a PhD in Roman Catholic Theology. He is former Professor of Medicine at Cedars Sinai Medical Center and Clinical Professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and UC Riverside. Dr Schwarz is world renowned as a clinical and academic heart specialist and serves as the Director of Cardiology and Director of the Heart Institute of the Southern California Hospital in Los Angeles, as well as Director and President of the Pacific Heart Medical Group in Murrieta, and CMO of the Dr von Schwarz Anti-Aging and Stem Cell Institute in Beverly Hills.
Dr Schwarz has published more than 150 scientific articles in international peer reviewed journals, several book chapters and books in Cardiology and Theology, and is a sought after speaker at international scientific conferences worldwide. Dr Schwarz is one of the thought leaders in modern future technologies including stem cell therapies for chronic diseases for the heart and other organs. Students from Universities from all over the world seek internships with Dr Schwarz on an ongoing basis.
Dr Schwarz studied Medicine at the Universities of Vienna in Austria and the Philipps University in Marburg, Germany, and he worked and earned academic positions at the RWTH University of Technology in Aachen, Germany, the University of Ife in Ile-Ife in Nigeria, a Harvard affiliated hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the University of Texas in Galveston, Texas, and Cedars Sinai Medical Center and UCLA in L.A.. He resides in Los Angeles and in Germany and has clinical practices in Beverly Hills, Culver City, and Temecula, California.
