Stem Cell Bioethics Social Sciences Research Paper

Stem Cell Bioethics: An Analysis
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Introduction
Stem cell researches have been advanced with the aims of fostering a proper understanding of the underlying mechanisms in the processes of differentiation, development, and repair of tissues and therapeutic application of the undifferentiated tissues in processes such as repair and replacement of organs Allum et al. (2017). According to Kimg and Perrin (2014), both ethical and social issues emanate whenever scientific studies are undertaken because such studies impose direct or indirect influences among individuals. Further, biomedical studies are extremely affected by such issues due to underlying potential benefits as well as the costs these researches impose on the immediate societies. According to de Miguel-Beriain (2014), any medical practitioner has a direct obligation of ensuring that the patients he serves are accorded optimal levels of morality by ensuring that their samples are effectively moderated whenever they are applied in researches. Stem cell researches have been considered as biomedical studies that raise multiple questions in the dimension of ethics and morality that can be categorized into two areas.
First, Liso et al. (2017) identify the ethical issues that surround the points of origin of the stem cells and in particular, the underlying applications of the embryo cells. Second, there are ethical issues that surround the application of stem cell tissues in researches. On the other hand, Duffy et al. (2016) identify the non-therapeutic application of biomedical procedures such as cloning, artificial fertilization, and genetic modification as practices that raise multiple ethical issues when dealing with human samples in research. This is because these practices accord the researchers with the inherent powers of imposing active interventions in the processes of physical insemination, maintenance, and modification of human tissues. Therefore, these procedures call for proper questioning of the conventional assumptions that underlie the propriety of imposing interferences in the activities of creating and modifying human beings.
On the other hand, Duffy et al. (2016) reveal that such techniques may also be considered as sources of threat to the traditional structures of families. The current study seeks to undertake a critical analysis of the bioethical issues surrounding human stem cell researches with inclination on the issues of morality that surround the sources and techniques applied in the processes of developing these cells. Consequently, the study shall investigate the underlying ethical issues that surround the scholarly investigations targeting stem cells derived from embryos following infertility studies, the moral variations and relationships depicted in the processes of development and application of stem cell in pursuit of infertility researches and the issues of funding biomedical researches dealing with stem cells.
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