Ethical Issues in Human Cloning: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives,9781889119113

Ethical Issues in Human Cloning: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives

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ISBN13: 9781889119113
ISBN10: 1889119113
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-11-01
Publisher(s): Seven Bridges Pr Llc
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Summary

A refreshingly comprehensive and balanced overview of the complex arguments, for and against, human cloning. This timely anthology offers a range of expert opinion, from scientific, religious (western and non-western), philosophical, and legal points of view on all the major ethical issues surrounding this controversial subject. Readable, concise, and highly engaging, readers will acquire a broader and deeper understanding of both sides of the issues.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: The Ethical Challenge 1(6)
Part I. Perspectives from Science
Introduction
7(4)
The Science, Fiction, and Reality of Embryo Cloning
11(10)
Jacques Cohen
Giles Tomkin
The Outcome as Cause: Predestination and Human Cloning
21(13)
Leon Eisenberg
Dolly's Fashion and Louis's Passion: Ruminations on the Downfall of a King and the Cloning of a Sheep
34(9)
Stephen Jay Gould
The Wisdom of Repugnance
43(31)
Leon R. Kass
Part II. Perspectives from Religion
Introduction
69(5)
Should We Clone Humans?
74(3)
Richard A. McCormick
Begetting and Cloning
77(5)
Gilbert Meilaender
Can Science Be Trusted?
82(2)
Marian Gray Secundy
Regulating Cloning Technologies
84(3)
Kenneth S. Robinson
Human and Divine Responsibility
87(2)
Rabbi Barry Freundel
To Clone or Not to Clone?
89(2)
Stanley S. Harakas
Who Will Set the Limits?
91(2)
Maher Hathout
Knowledge Is Not Wisdom
93(2)
Viola F. Cordova
The Opportunity of Cloning
95(3)
Ronald Y. Nakasone
When It Comes to Karma...
98(2)
Arvind Sharma
Cloning, Ethics, and Religion
100(6)
Lee M. Silver
What's Wrong with Cloning?
106(15)
Richard Dawkins
Part III. Perspectives from Philosophy
Introduction
117(4)
Cloning: Then and Now
121(5)
Daniel Callahan
Moral Problems in Cloning Embryos
126(2)
Frances Kamm
Bad Copies: How Popular Media Represent Cloning as an Ethical Problem
128(13)
Patrick D. Hopkins
Clones, Harms, and Rights
141(7)
Rosamond Rhodes
Cloning and Infertility
148(17)
Carson Strong
Four Questions about Ethics
165(18)
Gregory E. Pence
Part IV. Perspectives from Policy and Law
Introduction
179(4)
National Bioethics Advisory Commission
Cloning Human Beings: Report and Recommendations of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission
183(5)
Scientific Discoveries and Cloning: Challenges for Public Policy
188(6)
George J. Annas
Mom, Dad, Clone: Implications for Reproductive Privacy
194(13)
Lori B. Andrews
The Question of Human Cloning
207(18)
John A. Robertson
Splitting Embryos on the Slippery Slope: Ethics and Public Policy
225(15)
Ruth Macklin
Epilogue: Recent Developments 240

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