title: [On therapeutic use of stem cells and the sources of morality].
abstract: The Article deals with the ethical issues around the therapeutic utilization of stem cells (SC), particularly facing with factors of morality: i.e., object of the human action, aims and circumstances. Crucial ethical questions are recognized in the last factor (circumstances), particularly: the origin and the availability of SC, the consequences of the therapeutic action through SC, the diffusion/communication of scientific data around the clinical use of SC. The paper assumes the perspective of the ethics considered as practical-normative science, centered on the human person (as a whole) as the value of reference.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Scienze Cardio-vascolari, Università Campus Biomedico, Roma, Italia.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Di Sciasciol
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Tambone
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sacchini
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D033041:Embryo Research / Q000941:ethics; D053595:Embryonic Stem Cells; D026689:Ethical Analysis; D028663:Ethical Theory; D053686:Fetal Stem Cells; D006412:Hematopoietic Stem Cells; D006801:Humans; D009014:Morals; D033581:Stem Cell Transplantation / Q000941:ethics*; D013234:Stem Cells