Stem Cell Governance and Ethics

This book explores the ethical and governance concerns of stem cell technology and examines the existing governance frameworks in the UK, Singapore, and Malaysia. Providing a comparative analysis between these three commonwealth countries, this book will interest health law, research ethics and bioethics scholars.

Mohammad Firdaus Bin Abdul Aziz is Senior Lecturer and Deputy Dean of Research and Innovation at the Faculty of Law, Universiti Malaya. He obtained his DPhil from the University of Oxford. Currently, he is a co-investigator on a UK Wellcome Trust-funded initiative aimed at establishing a bioethics network in Southeast Asia and a co-investigator on the US NIH Fogarty grant, which focuses on developing a master's program in health research ethics at Universiti Malaya.

Table of Contents 1. Overview 2. The Controversial Issues of Human Embryos 3. The Governance Framework in the United Kingdom, Singapore, and Malaysia 4. Regulatory Response to Ethical Issues 5. The Way Forward for Malaysia Index