Stem Cell Battles: Proposition 71 And Beyond - How Ordinary People Can Fight Back Against The Crushing Burden Of Chronic Disease - With A Posthumous Foreword By Christopher Reeve
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Stem Cell Battles: Proposition 71 And Beyond - How Ordinary People Can Fight Back Against The Crushing Burden Of Chronic Disease - With A Posthumous Foreword By Christopher Reeve

Stem Cell Battles: Proposition 71 And Beyond - How Ordinary People Can Fight Back Against The Crushing Burden Of Chronic Disease - With A Posthumous Foreword By Christopher Reeve

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This is a one-of-a-kind book: combining easy-to-understand science, in-the-trenches political warfare, and inspirational stories. It aims to give hope to individuals and families who suffer from chronic disease or disability; to point out how ordinary people can make an extraordinary difference in the battle to ease suffering and save lives through supporting medical research; to share in “people talk” some of the amazing progress already achieved in the new field of stem cell research; to show how even such a magnificent success as the California stem cell program is under constant attack from ideological groups; to offer medical research as a force for international cooperation; to suggest how cure research lessens the need for the mountainous costs of endless care.Unparalleled background: the author has been involved in virtually every important stem cell battle (state, national, and international) since embryonic stem cell research began. The author works closely with Robert N. Klein, sponsor of the California stem cell program, the largest source of such stem cell research funding in the world. In addition, the author is an award-winning teacher as well as writer, and seeks to entertain as well as educate. His book is not only substantive, but also fun.The book would be a treasured gift: for anyone suffering an “incurable” illness or who is a caregiver for a loved one; for a college student considering a rewarding career in biomedicine; for scientists who want to protect and enhance their research funding; and for anyone who wants to see government respond to the needs of its citizenry. Chronic disease and disability are a prison: cure is the triumphant escape — wheelchairs should be for temporary occupancy only.

Table of Contents:
Foreword by Christopher Reeve; Acknowledgements; The Greatest Killer; The Naked Face of Hate; To Clone, or Not to Clone?; To Clone, or Not to Clone?; Season of Storms; The Trial(s) of the California Stem Cell Program; The very First Grants; Battles with a Friend; Building Now, Building Later?; Ideology, Science or Bible Quoting Vampires?; Joan of Arc, and the Republican Stem Cell Reversal?; Deadly Definitions; What are We Fighting for?; "Suffer Little Children"...; "Klein Must Resign!"; Last Day in the Wolverine State; Getting Up in the Morning and Going to - Washington?; The Boy Who Loved Stanford too Much; Stem Cell Summit, Stem Cell World; How Not to Have Sex in a Personhood State; Fighting the Killers: Leukemia and Cancer; The Thief of Memory; The Anti-Science Society; Stem Cell Thanksgiving; Swimming from Alcatraz; Bridge to a New Life; Skidding on Ice; Helen Keller and Stem Cell Research; How to Mend a Broken Heart; Why We Can't Afford to Not Cure Paralysis; The War We Must Not Lose; In Which I Get Cancer; Sickle-Cell Anemia: The Politics of Pain; Mowgli and the Matrix: A Year in the Life of the California Stem Cell Program; "To Whom Goes the Kingdom?"; The Liver List; The Will of Connecticut; Champions Find a Way; Disenfranchise the Disabled?; Adventures in Intellectual Property; Spartacus Fights Back Against Stroke; Diabetes Going Down?; Jamie Thomson: Or, How Do You Follow an Act of Genius?; Sherley V Sebelius; The Woman Who Would Not be Silenced; The Gorilla Gynecologist: Or, the Pera-Chen Anti-Urinary-Incontinence Method; Turning Over Rocks: The Battle For Paralysis Cure; In Memory Still Green: The Passing of Three Giants; Invitation to Mexico; Of Presidents, and the Valley of Death; Little Hoover and the Institute of Medicine; Studying the Moon, Looking Through a Straw; The Great Nebraska Compromise; Stem Cell Tourism; The Man Who Could Fly (without a Plane); Thief of Lives; Singapore, Biopolis, and the Power of the Small; Fighting Back Against Parkinson's; International Friends; A Texas Miracle; Fighting Back Against Parkinson's; International Friends; A Texas Miracle; The Stem Cell Musketeers of Brazil; Adventures in China; Professor Forever and the Giant Squid; A Double Baker's Dozen of Cirm's Greatest Grants; The Greatest Speech You Never Heard; On the Resignation of Mahendra Rao; Arthritis and the Fifty States; Would You Drink from a Fountain of Youth?; A Room For Things That Go Right; Christmas, 2014: Where Did the Money Go?; The End?; Appendices: Interview with Lim Chuan Poh, Chairman of A*Star and Biopolis; An Interview with Hans Keirstead; Bob Klein Interview;


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9789814644013
  • Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 9814644013
  • Publisher Date: 06 Dec 2015
  • Binding: Hardback
  • No of Pages: 432


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