Global Perspectives on Stem Cell Technologies

Aditya Bharadwaj is professor of Anthropology and Sociology at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. In 2013 he was awarded a European Research Council Consolidator Grant to examine the burgeoning rise of stem cell biotechnologies in India. He has published in multiple peer-reviewed journals and edited collections, and has authored several books.

• Introduction. Aditya Bharadwaj: Stem Cell Intersections: Perspectives and Experiences.- Part I Regenerating Ethics.- Chapter 1. Sarah Franklin: Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Cells Do Fly.- Chapter 2. Linda Hogle: Ethical Ambiguities: Emerging Models of Donor–Researcher Relations in the Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells.- Chapter 3. Marcie Middlebrooks and Hazuki Shimono: Staging Scientific Selves and Pluripotent Cells in South Korea and Japan.- Part II Therapeutic Horizons.- Chapter 4. Geeta Shroff: Establishment and Use of Injectable Human Embryonic Stem Cells for Clinical Application.- Chapter 5. Petra Hopf-Seidel: Pre-blastomeric Regeneration: German Patients Encounter hESC in India.- Part III Patient Positions.- Chapter 6. Ripudaman Singh: Active Parents, Parental Activism: The Adipose Stem Cell In-Vitro Lab Study.- Chapter 7. Lola Davis and Shannon Davis: Accidental Events: Regenerative Medicine, Quadriplegia and Life’s Journey.- Chapter 8. Nayantara Sheron and Aditya Bharadwaj: Bio-crossing Heterotopia: Revisiting Contemporary Stem Cell Research and Therapy in India.- Afterword: Marcia C. Inhorn.