AMBIENTUM BIOETHICA BIOLOGIA CHEMIA DIGITALIA DRAMATICA EDUCATIO ARTIS GYMNAST. ENGINEERING EPHEMERIDES EUROPAEA GEOGRAPHIA GEOLOGIA HISTORIA HISTORIA ARTIUM INFORMATICA IURISPRUDENTIA MATHEMATICA MUSICA NEGOTIA OECONOMICA PHILOLOGIA PHILOSOPHIA PHYSICA POLITICA PSYCHOLOGIA-PAEDAGOGIA SOCIOLOGIA THEOLOGIA CATHOLICA THEOLOGIA CATHOLICA LATIN THEOLOGIA GR.-CATH. VARAD THEOLOGIA ORTHODOXA THEOLOGIA REF. TRANSYLVAN
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Authors: LARS ASSEN, ANNELIEN BREDENOORD, KARIN JONGSMA, MARIANNA TRYFONIDOU, ROSARIO ISASI.
DOI: 10.24193/subbbioethica.2021.spiss.08
Published Online: 2021-06-30
Published Print: 2021-06-30
pp.26-27
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ABSTRACT: Parallel Session I, Room 8 Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) have been praised for overcoming some of the ethical challenges of embryonic stem cell research, including oocyte donation for research and the destruction of human embryos. However, iPSC-research and iPSC-based interventions are not morally neutral alternatives and have their own ethical implications that are not fully understood yet. While there is some understanding of ethical issues surrounding the derivation, storage and use of human tissue, there is less understanding of how iPSC-research affects our society and morality. Consequentially, it is difficult to fully anticipate those implications. The notion of hard and soft impacts could benefit the understanding and anticipation of ethical implications of iPSC-research and interventions. Hard impacts are those direct physical and financial effects of iPSCs that are quantifiable and measurable. So-called soft impacts have a different focus. They consider how a technology or intervention affects our psychology, societal structures, morality and our behavior, hereby influencing the uptake, effects and evaluation of technology. So far, academic literature and researchers focus primarily on hard impacts of iPSC-research. Soft impacts are similarly important and therefore require more academic and regulatory attention. This talk focuses upon these understudied aspects of iPSC-research and technology. The goal is to show that for researchers and ethicists it is important to become aware of the soft impacts of iPSC-research and technology. This awareness could contribute to a broader understanding of the social value of stem cell research, anticipating ethical challenges of iPSC-research and in formulating new virtues for stem cell researchers.
