Evaluation of the knowledge about stem-cells by undergraduate students of courses of the health area from Universidade Estadual de Londrina – what students know and what their opinions are: DOI: 10.15343/0104-7809.200832.1.5
Stem-cells are considered in this beginning of century a historical landmark in the new curative medicine and opens horizons for the futureof science. Even taking into account advances in science, the appropriate study of these cells creates ambiguity regarding values. If on the one handthere is the...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2008 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Centro Universitário São Camilo |
| Repositorio: | O Mundo da Saúde (Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs3.revistamundodasaude.emnuvens.com.br:article/817 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistamundodasaude.emnuvens.com.br/mundodasaude/article/view/817 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Células-tronco. Células-tronco embrionárias. Bioética. Stem-cells. Embryonic stem-cells. Bioethics. |
| Sumario: | Stem-cells are considered in this beginning of century a historical landmark in the new curative medicine and opens horizons for the futureof science. Even taking into account advances in science, the appropriate study of these cells creates ambiguity regarding values. If on the one handthere is the prospect of curing diseases classified until recently as “incurable”, on the other hand, one questions its effectiveness and the use of humanembryos. The information runs in a sped up rhythm when propagated by the media, leaving the university as a secondary source in the search for thisinformation. This study had the aim of identifying the level of knowledge and information of pupils of the courses of the health area of State Universityof Londrina concerning the considered subject. For doing this, 42 (forty two) pupils of the medical and nursing course physiotherapy and pharmacywere interviewed. One evidenced that the majority of pupils still have much difficulty to discuss the conceptual aspects of stem-cells. Most of themshow to be against a law that defines the beginning of human life and to the production of embryos for research purposes. They believe that culturaland religious factors must be considered in discussions on frozen human embryos and had evaluated disciplines such as Bioethics as insufficient andinnocuous during undergraduate years. |
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