Introduction
1. What are stems cells? How to they function? What might they do?
2. The search for new sources of pluripotent stem cells
3. The moral significance of early human embryos in secular thought
4. The moral significance of early human embryos in religious thought
5. Creating human-nonhuman chimeras in stem cell research
6. International stem cell research and research cloning : three contrasting approaches
7. The development of national policy on stem cell research in the United States
8. In pursuit of national review and oversight of stem cell research in the United States
Appendix A. NIH guidelines for funding of human pluripotent stem cell research, August 25, 2000
Appendix B. Speech by President George W. Bush regarding human stem cell research, August 9, 2001
Appendix C. Withdrawal of NIH guidelines for research using human pluripotent stem cells, November 2, 2001
Appendix D. NIH criteria for federal funding of human pluripotent stem cells, November 7, 2001
Appendix E. President George W. Bush's veto of the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2005, July 2006.