ch. 1. Will stem cells cure disease? 1. Stem cells will soon provide cures for many diseases / Stem Cell Research Foundation -- 2. Promise of stem cells is exaggerated / Peter Aldhous -- 3. Embryonic stem cell research is necessary to find a diabetes cure / Robert Goldstein -- 4. Nonembryonic stem cell research can find a diabetes cure / Dave Andrusko -- 5. Embryonic stem cell research may one day cure Alzheimer's disease / Sharon Begley -- 6. Embryonic stem cell research is unlikely to cure Alzheimer's disease / Rick Weiss -- ch. 2. What ethical and moral questions surround stem cell research? 1. Destroying embryos in order to obtain stem cells is immoral / William Cheshire -- 2. Destroying embryos in order to obtain stem cells is not immoral / Jonathan D. Moreno, Sam Berger -- 3. Therapeutic cloning to obtain embryonic stem cells is immoral / David A. Prentice, William Saunders -- 4. Therapeutic cloning to obtain embryonic stem cells is not immoral / Michael J. Sandel -- 5. Stem cell treatments threaten human morality / Paul Lauritzen -- 6. Stem cell treatments do not threaten human morality / Susan Squier, Catherine Waldby, Anita Silvers -- 7. Altered nuclear transfer is a moral way to obtain embryonic stem cells / E. Christian Brugger -- ch. 3. What role should the government play in stem cell research? 1. U.S. stem cell policy is moral / George W. Bush -- 2. U.S. stem cell policy is morally inconsistent / Arthur Caplan -- 3. Current number of federally approved stem cell lines is inadequate / Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International -- 4. Number of federally approved stem cell lines should not be increased / Eric Cohen -- 5. Americans favor government support of human embryonic stem cell research / Civil Society Institute/Results for America -- 6. Americans do not favor government support of human embryonic stem cell research / United States Conference of Catholic Bishops -- 7. U.S. policy is hurting stem cell research in the United States / Gareth Cook -- 8. U.S policy is not hurting stem cell research in the United States / Do No Harm : The Coalition of Americans for Research Ethics. ch. 4. Are there alternatives to embryonic stem cells? 1. Adult stem cells are more promising than embryonic stem cells / Jean Peduzzi-Nelson -- 2. Adult stem cells are not more promising than embryonic stem cells / William B. Neaves -- 3. Fetal stem cells are a promising alternative to embryonic stem cells / Business Week -- 4. Stem cells should not be harvested from artificially grown fetuses / Robert P. George -- 5. Umbilical cord stem cells are more beneficial than embryonic stem cells / Peter Hollands, interviewed by Peter J. Smith -- 6. Umbilical cord stem cells cannot replace embryonic stem cells / K. Welte, World Marrow Donor Association -- 7. Amniotic fluid stem cells may replace embryonic stem cells / Mary Carmichael.