The cloning sourcebook / edited by Arlene Judith Klotzko.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Klotzko, Arlene Judith.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human cloning--Moral and ethical aspects.

Human cloning.

Human reproductive technology--Moral and ethical aspects.

Human reproductive technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (373 p.)

Edition:

Rev. pbk. ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Animal cloning has developed quickly since the birth of Dolly the Sheep. What do Dolly and her fellow mouse, cow, pig, goat and monkey clones mean for science? And for society? Why do many people respond so fearfully to cloning? This book addresses these and other questions. It is useful for students, citizens, and policymakers.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Contributors

Introduction

PART I: THE SCIENCE OF CLONING

1 Voices from Roslin: The Creators of Dolly Discuss Cloning Science, Ethics,and Social Responsibility

2 Mammalian Cloning by Nuclear Microinjection

3 On Recent Developments in Mammalian Nuclear Transplantation and Cloning

4 Dolly Mice

5 Thinking Twice, or Thrice, about Cloning

6 Would Cloned Humans Really Be Like Sheep?

PART II: THE CONTEXT OF CLONING

7 Cloning in the Popular Imagination

8 The Two-Edged Sword: Biotechnology and Mythology

9 Cloning, Then and Now

10 On Re-Doing Man

11 A Report from America: The Debate about Dolly

12 Power without Responsibility: Media Portrayals of British Science

PART III: CLONING: THE ETHICAL ISSUES

13 Does Ethics Make a Difference? The Debate over Human Cloning

14 Cloning Humans and Cloning Animals

15 Animal Cloning: The Pet Paradigm

16 A Pragmatic Approach to Human Cloning

17 Human Reproductive Cloning: A Look at the Arguments against It and a Rejection of Most of Them

18 A Life in the Shadow: One Reason We Should Not Clone Humans

19 Clones, Harms, and Rights

PART IV: CLONING AND GERM-LINE INTERVENTIONS: THE POLICY ISSUES

20 Reflections on the Interface of Bioethics, Public Policy, and Science

21 The Regulation of Technology

22 Cloning and the Regulative Dilemma

23 Mom, Dad, Clone: Implications for Reproductive Privacy

24 First Dolly, Now Polly: Policy Implications of the Birth of a Transgenic Cloned Lamb

25 Ethical Aspects of Genetic Modification of Animals: Opinion of the Group of Advisers on the Ethical Implications of Biotechnology of the European Commission

Commentary

26 Ethical Aspects of Cloning Techniques: Opinion of the Group of Advisers on the Ethical Implications of Biotechnology of the European Commission

Commentary.

27 Cloning Issues in Reproduction, Science, and Medicine: A Report by a Joint Working Group of the UK Human Genetics Advisory Commission and the UK Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority

Background and Commentary

Index

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Notes:

Originally published: 2001.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-028454-4

0-19-973103-9

0-19-530210-9

OCLC:

228115579