THE BIOETHICS OF REGENERATIVE MEDICINE Philosophy and Medicine VOLUME 102 Founding Co-Editor Stuart F. Spicker Senior Editor H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., Department of Philosophy, Rice University, and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas Associate Editor Lisa M. Rasmussen, Department of Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina Editorial Board George J. Agich, Department of Philosophy, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio Nicholas Capaldi, College of Business Administration, Loyola University, New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana Edmund Erde, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Stratford, New Jersey Christopher Tollefsen, Department of Philosophy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J., President Loyola University, New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana Forothertitlespublishedinthisseries,goto www.springer.com/series/6414 THE BIOETHICS OF REGENERATIVE MEDICINE Editedby KING – TAK IP Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong 123 Editor King-TakIP HongKongBaptistUniversity Dept.Religion&Philosophy 224WaterlooRoad KowloonTong HongKong/PRChina [email protected] ISBN:978-1-4020-8966-4 e-ISBN:978-1-4020-8967-1 LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2008933455 #SpringerScienceþBusinessMediaB.V.2009 Nopartofthisworkmaybereproduced,storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmitted inanyformorbyanymeans,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,microfilming,recording orotherwise,withoutwrittenpermissionfromthePublisher,withtheexception ofanymaterialsuppliedspecificallyforthepurposeofbeingentered andexecutedonacomputersystem,forexclusiveusebythepurchaserofthework. Printedonacid-freepaper 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 springer.com Contents Contributors................................................ vii PartI Introduction Introduction:RegenerativeMedicineattheHeart oftheCultureWars ...................................... 3 King-TakIP PartII ProspectofBeingPosthuman:TheMetaphysicalRootsofthe MoralControversies 1 RegenerativeMedicineafterHumanism:PuzzlesRegarding theuseofEmbryonicStemCells,Germ-LineGeneticEngineering, andtheImmanentPursuitofHumanFlourishing................ 13 H.TristramEngelhardt 2 GeneticManipulationandtheResurrectionBody ............... 27 RobertSong 3 SecularHumanistBioethicsandRegenerativeMedicine .......... 47 Ping-CheungLo 4 RadicalDisagreementsofChineseViewsonFetalLife andImplicationsforBioethics .............................. 63 NieJing-Bao PartIII AHumanEmbryonicStem-CellResearch:TheGeography ofPersistentDisagreement 5 UsingandMisusingEmbryos:TheEthicalDebates.............. 77 BrendaAlmond v vi Contents 6 TradingLivesorChangingHumanNature:TheStrangeDilemma ofEmbryo-BasedRegenerativeMedicine...................... 93 GlennMcgee 7 TherapeuticCloning,RespectforHumanEmbryo, andSymbolicValue ...................................... 107 JonathanChan PartIV ASearchforaLargerPicture:RegenerativeMedicine andtheMoralEnterprise 8 MedicalBiotechnologies:AreThereEffectiveEthicalArguments forPolicyMaking?....................................... 119 RuipingFanandErikaYu 9 ExtendingHumanLife:ToWhatEnd? ....................... 135 BrentWaters 10 TheEthicsofRegenerativeMedicine:BeyondHumanism andPosthumanism....................................... 155 GeraldP.Mckenny 11 VirtueInVitro:VirtueEthicsasanAlternativetoQuestions ofMoralStatus ......................................... 171 JustinHoandGarretMerriam Index..................................................... 181 Contributors BrendaAlmond DepartmentofPhilosophy,UniversityofHull,Hull,UK NieJing-Bao SeniorLecturer,BioethicsCentre,UniversityofOtago,Dunedin, New Zealand; Adjunct Professor/Faculty Associate, Wuhan and Beijing Universities,China JonathanChan DepartmentofReligionandPhilosophy,BaptistUniversityof HongKong H.TristramEngelhardt ProfessorofPhilosophy,RiceUniversity,Houston, TX, USA; Professor Emeritus, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA, [email protected] Ruiping Fan Associate Professor, Department of Public and Social Administra- tion,CityUniversityofHongKong,HongKong,PRC,[email protected] JustinHoDepartmentofPhilosophy,RiceUniversity,Houston,TX,USA Ping-CheungLo DepartmentofReligionandPhilosophy,HongKongBaptist University,KowloonTong,HongKong,PRC GlennMcGee Editor-in-Chief,TheAmericanJournalofBioethics,Professor, Alden March Bioethics Institute, Albany Medical College, and Principal, Bioethics Education Network LLC [bene], 559 Highwood CIR, Albany, NewYork Gerald P. Mckenny Department of Theology, University of Notre Dame, NotreDame,IN46556,USA,[email protected] Garret Merriam is Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University ofSouthernIndiana,Evanville,IN,USA vii viii Contributors Robert Song Department of Theology and Religion, Durham University, Durham,UK Brent Waters Jerry and Mary Joy Stead Associate Professor of Christian Social Ethics, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, 2121 Sheridan Road,Evanston,IL60201,[email protected] ErikaYu isformerlywiththeGovernanceinAsiaResearchCentre(GARC)at theCityUniversityofHongKong,Kowloon,HongKong,SAR Part I Introduction