Foetal Tissue Transplantation Research: Scientific Progress and the Role of Special Interest Groups

Examines reactions of politicians, patient groups, scientific and medical community, and mass media to the Bush administration moratorium on financial support for research into the use of fetal tissue in the treatment of Parkinson's disease; US; 1987-92. On the grounds that the "research h...

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Published in:Minerva (London) 1995-03, Vol.33 (1), p.45-66
Main Author: TEDESCHI, CHRISTOPHER M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aborted Fetus
Abortion
Abortion, Induced
Advisory Committees
American Medical Association
Attitude
Bioethics
Ethics
Federal Government
Fetal Research
Fetal tissue transplantation
Fetal Tissue Transplantation - history
Fetus
Finance
Financial support
Financing, Government
Government
Government Regulation
Government-sponsored research
Health policy
History of medicine
History, 20th Century
Humans
Informed Consent
Jurisprudence
Mass Media
Medical applications
Medical ethics
Medical research
Medical sector
National Institutes of Health (U.S.) - history
Organizational Policy
Parkinson Disease
Parkinson's disease
Patient Advocacy
Political debate
Politics
Pregnancy
Pregnant Women
Public Policy
Regulation
Research - history
Research Personnel
Research Support as Topic - history
Social Control, Formal
Societies
Tissue donation
Tissue Transplantation
Transplantation
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc
United States
United States Dept. of Health and Human Services
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Summary:Examines reactions of politicians, patient groups, scientific and medical community, and mass media to the Bush administration moratorium on financial support for research into the use of fetal tissue in the treatment of Parkinson's disease; US; 1987-92. On the grounds that the "research has the potential for promoting and legitimizing abortion."
ISSN:0026-4695
1573-1871
DOI:10.1007/BF01098619