Title

Public Stem Cell Banks: Considerations of Justice in Stem Cell Research and Therapy

Authors

Ruth R. Faden, Johns Hopkins University
Liza Dawson, Johns Hopkins University
Alison S. Bateman-House, Johns Hopkins University
Dawn Mueller Agnew, Johns Hopkins University
Hilary Bok, Johns Hopkins University
Dan W. Brock, National Institutes of Health
Aravinda Chakravarti, Johns Hopkins University
Xiaojiang Gao, National Cancer Institute at Frederick
Mark Greene, Johns Hopkins University; Georgetown University
Patricia A. King, Georgetown University
Stephen J. O'Brien, American Genetics AssociationFollow
David H. Sachs, Harvard University
Kathryn E. Schill, Johns Hopkins University
Andrew Siegel, Johns Hopkins University
Davor Solter, Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology - Freiburg, Germany
Sonia M. Suter, George Washington University
Catherine M. Verfaillie, University of Minnesota - Minneapolis
LeRoy B. Walters, Georgetown University
John Gearhart, Johns Hopkins University

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

11-2003

Publication Title

Hastings Center Report

ISSN

1552-146X

Volume

33

Issue/No.

6

First Page

13

Last Page

27

Abstract

Faden et al discuss the forthcoming transition of stem cell research from basic science to the development of therapies, which raises important questions of justice. They argue that they have great therapies and only a limited assortment of patients to give them to: the therapies would work only for patients whose immune systems are compatible with the stem cell lines from which the therapies are derived. If they develop therapies from cell lines that are compatible with the largest possible segments of the population, they will tend to benefit primarily whites.

Comments

©The Hastings Center Nov/Dec 2003

NSUWorks Citation

Faden, Ruth R.; Liza Dawson; Alison S. Bateman-House; Dawn Mueller Agnew; Hilary Bok; Dan W. Brock; Aravinda Chakravarti; Xiaojiang Gao; Mark Greene; Patricia A. King; Stephen J. O'Brien; David H. Sachs; Kathryn E. Schill; Andrew Siegel; Davor Solter; Sonia M. Suter; Catherine M. Verfaillie; LeRoy B. Walters; and John Gearhart. 2003. "Public Stem Cell Banks: Considerations of Justice in Stem Cell Research and Therapy." Hastings Center Report 33, (6): 13-27. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cnso_bio_facarticles/562

ORCID ID

0000-0001-7353-8301

ResearcherID

N-1726-2015