Debates regarding the status of the human embryo have captured considerable attention worldwide, but this is the first book to comprehensively draw on recent developments to rigorously explore the features allowing us to decide whether a cell entity is a human being.

Chapter 1- Introduction- Joachim Huarte and Antoine Suarez - Chapter 2- Breakthrough in stem cell research?- The reprogramming of somatic cells to pluripotent stem cells. Overview and outlook

Boris Greber and Hans Schöler - Chapter 3- Pre-implantation stages of human development: the biological and moral status of early embryos- Maureen Condic- Chapter 4 - Complete moles and parthenotes are not organisms- Nicanor Austriaco- Chapter 5 Embryos grown in culture deserve the same moral status as embryos after implantation
Joachim Huarte and Antoine Suarez - Chapter 6- Distinguishing embryos from non-embryos - Patrick Lee - Chapter 7- Is the human embryo a person? On the status of cell entities produced through ANT- Pablo Requena - Chapter 8 - Does a human being have a right to life?- The debate on embryo research in Germany as a case study- Manfred Spieker - Chapter 9 - Interspecies mixtures and the status of humanity
Neville Cobbe- Chapter 10- The boundaries of humanity: the ethics of human-animal chimeras in cloning and stem cell research
William Hurlbut - Chapter 11- Is this cell entity a human being? - Neural activity, spiritual soul, and the status of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs)
Antoine Suarez -