@article{hbkup:/content/journals/10.5339/rels.2014.science.13, author = "Crane, Jonathan K.", title = "Stem Cell Research and Judaism", journal= "Religions: A Scholarly Journal", year = "2014", volume = "2014", number = "2", pages = "", doi = "https://doi.org/10.5339/rels.2014.science.13", url = "https://www.qscience.com/content/journals/10.5339/rels.2014.science.13", publisher = "Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press)", issn = "2218-7480", type = "Journal Article", eid = "13", abstract = "The potential of stem cell research to contribute to human understanding of human development, aging, ailment, and demise is indisputable. This essay surveys Judaic perspectives on these promising yet imperfect ways of securing pluripotent stem cells for scientific and medicinal purposes. As one might expect, there is disagreement among modern Jewish bioethicists about which modes of securing these cells is permissible. Yet there is overwhelming consensus among them that using such cells to improve scientific knowledge and medicinal treatments is indeed permissible if not obligatory. To appreciate these dynamics, we first look at some principles Judaism holds in regard to medicine in general. We then investigate in light of Judaic texts the particular strategies used to extract and establish pluripotent stem cells. The concluding section evaluates these principles and concerns. ", }