The Global Dynamics of Regenerative Medicine - A Social Science Critique

Regenerative medicine, encompassing stem cells and tissue engineering, has attracted huge interest within commercial, clinical and government circles, and promises to change medicine itself. This book provides the first detailed examination and critical assessment of the field to be made by social science.

Itziar Alkorta, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain Inigo Miguel Beriain, University of Deusto and University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain Kathrin Braun, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany Haidan Chen, National University of Singapore Herbert Gottweis, University of Vienna, Austria Christian Haddad, University of Vienna, Austria Stuart Hogarth, King's College London, UK Beth Kewell, University of Stavanger, Norway Graham Lewis, University of York, UK Michael Morrison, University of Exeter, UK David Rodríguez-Arias, Spanish National Research Council (CCHS-CSIC), Spain Brian Salter, King's College London, UK Sándor, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary Susanne Schultz, Goethe University, Germany Marton Varju, University of Hull, UK