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Brain 2004 127(12):2779-2782; doi:10.1093/brain/awh335
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Brain Vol. 127 No. 12 © Guarantors of Brain 2004; all rights reserved

Book review

NEURAL STEM CELLS FOR BRAIN AND SPINAL CORD REPAIR

Tanya Zigova, Evan Snyder and Paul Sanberg, editors.

2002. Totowa (NJ)

Humana Press

Price $149.50. ISBN 1588290034

STILL LIVES—NARRATIVES OF SPINAL CORD INJURY

Jonathan Cole

2004. Harvard (MA): Bradford Books, MIT Press

Price £18.95.

ISBN 0262033151

STEM CELL RESEARCH—NEW FRONTIERS IN SCIENCE AND ETHICS

Nancy E. Snow, editor.

2003. Notre Dame (IN)

University of Notre Dame Press

Price $25.00.

ISBN 0268017786

Alasdair Coles1 and Roger Barker1,2

1 Neurology Unit, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, School of Clinical Medicine and 2 Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair, University of Cambridge, UK

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Stem cells, stories and wonderful works

For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.

Psalm 139: 13–16


Western society is confused about the status of the embryo. The image of God, knitting together an embryo as He plans its destiny, resonates with many expectant mothers, with or without faith, who brood on their child to be. The narratives of the hope of pregnancy, the despair of miscarriage and the tragedy of late fetal death are common to all peoples. Yet abortion . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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