The controversy around the research with embryonic stem cells in Brazil: position and arguments of the representatives of the Catholic Church

Authors

  • Lilian Sales Universidade Federal de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/2179-0892.ra.2014.87758

Keywords:

Controversy, public space, embryonic stem cells, Catholic Church, bioethics.

Abstract

his article examines a part of the controversy surrounding the embryonic stem cells use liberation on scientific research. It focuses on the positioning contrary to the liberation taken by agents linked to the Catholic Church. We will analyze arguments and strategies that are employed by those agents in order to position against the liberation, adopting a position “in defense of life”, and we shall expose the different ways by which this position is defended on different instances involved in this controversy. The centrality of theological/doctrinal-based elements and of scientific-based elements will be observed in each one of the Catholic Institution instances, constituting an important part of the construction of the legitimacy of its argument against the use of embryonic stem cells in research. 

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Published

2014-11-11

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Sales, L. (2014). The controversy around the research with embryonic stem cells in Brazil: position and arguments of the representatives of the Catholic Church. Revista De Antropologia, 57(1), 179-214. https://doi.org/10.11606/2179-0892.ra.2014.87758