Download or read book Human Cloning written by James M. Humber and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1998-08-07 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Human Cloning a panel of distinguished philosophers, medical ethicists, religious thinkers, and social critics tackle the thorny problems raised by the now real possibility of human cloning. In their wide ranging reviews, the distinguished contributors critically examine the major arguments for and against human cloning, probe the implications of such a procedure for society, and critically evaluate the "Report and Recommendations of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission." The debate includes both religious and secular arguments, as well as an outline of the history of the cloning debate and a discussion of human cloning's impact on our sense of self and our beliefs about the meaning of life.
Download or read book Scientific and Medical Aspects of Human Reproductive Cloning written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2002-06-17 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human reproductive cloning is an assisted reproductive technology that would be carried out with the goal of creating a newborn genetically identical to another human being. It is currently the subject of much debate around the world, involving a variety of ethical, religious, societal, scientific, and medical issues. Scientific and Medical Aspects of Human Reproductive Cloning considers the scientific and medical sides of this issue, plus ethical issues that pertain to human-subjects research. Based on experience with reproductive cloning in animals, the report concludes that human reproductive cloning would be dangerous for the woman, fetus, and newborn, and is likely to fail. The study panel did not address the issue of whether human reproductive cloning, even if it were found to be medically safe, would beâ€"or would not beâ€"acceptable to individuals or society.
Download or read book Who s Afraid of Human Cloning written by Gregory E. Pence and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 1998-11-05 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human cloning raises the most profound questions about human nature, our faith in ourselves, and our ability to make decisions that could significantly alter the character of humanity. In this exciting and accessible book, Gregory Pence offers a candid and sometimes humorous look at the arguments for and against human cloning. Originating a human being by cloning, Pence boldly argues, should not strike fear in our hearts but should be examined as a reasonable reproductive option for couples. Pence considers how popular culture has influenced the way we think about cloning, and he presents a lucid and non-technical examination of the scientific research and relevant moral issues in the cloning debate. This book is a must-read for anyone who is concerned about the impact of technology on human life and for those with interests in medical ethics, sociology, and public policy.
Download or read book Human Cloning written by Ronald Cole-Turner and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is human cloning equal to playing God? Is the technology--despite being scientifically exciting--a moral option in our world? In this volume, Ronald Cole-Turner gathers twelve nontechnical and highly accessible essays that explore this controversial subject.
Download or read book Clones and Clones written by Martha Craven Nussbaum and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distinguished scholars and writers from a broad range of disciplines address a troubling and fascinating issue.
Download or read book Human Cloning written by Kerry Lynn Macintosh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-29 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Dolly the sheep was born, controversy has swirled around the technology of cloning. We recoil at the prospect of human copies, manufactured men and women, nefarious impersonators and resurrections of the dead. Such reactions have serious legal consequences: lawmakers have banned stem cell research along with the cloning of babies. But what if our minds have been playing tricks on us? What if everything we thought we knew about human cloning is rooted in intuition rather than fact? Human Cloning: Four Fallacies and their Legal Consequences is a rollicking ride through science, psychology and the law. Drawing on sources ranging from science fiction films to the Congressional Record, this book unmasks the role that psychological essentialism has played in bringing about cloning bans. It explains how hidden intuitions have caused conservatives and liberals to act contrary to their own most cherished ideals and values.
Download or read book The Ethics of Human Cloning written by Leon Kass and published by American Enterprise Institute. This book was released on 1998 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today biological science is rising on a wall of worry. No other science has advanced more dramatically during the past several decades or yielded so many palpable improvements in human welfare. Yet, none except nuclear physics has aroused greater apprehensions among the general public and leaders in such diverse fields as religion, the humanities, and government. In this engaging book, Leon R. Kass, the noted teacher, scientist, humanist, and chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics, and James Q. Wilson, the preeminent political scientist to whom four United States presidents have turned for advice on crime, drug abuse, education, and other crises in American life, explore the ethics of human cloning, reproductive technology, and the teleology of human sexuality. Although in their lively dialgoue both authors share a fundamental distrust of the notion of human cloning, they base their resistance on different views of the role of sexual reproduction and the role of the family. Professor Kass contends that in vitro fertilization and other assisted reproudction technologies that place the origin of human life in human hands have eroded the respect for the mystery of sexuality and human renewal. Professor Wilson, in contrast, asserts that whether a human life is created naturally or artificially is immaterial as long as the child is raised by loving parents in a two-parent family and is not harmed by the means of its conception. This accessible volume promises to inform the public policy debate over the permissible conduct of genetic research and the permissible uses of its discoveries.
Download or read book Human Cloning written by Kerry Lynn Macintosh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unmasks the role of psychological essentialism in cloning bans, explaining how intuitions cause individuals to act against their own values.
Download or read book The Cloning Sourcebook written by Arlene Judith Klotzko and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-09-25 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animal cloning has developed quickly since the birth of Dolly the sheep. Yet many of the first questions to be raised still need to be answered. What do Dolly and her fellow mouse, cow, pig, goat and monkey clones mean for science? And for society? Why do so many people respond so fearfully to cloning? What are the ethical issues raised by cloning animals, and in the future, humans? How are the makers of public policy coping with the stunning fact that an entire animal can be reconstructed from a single adult cell? And that humans might well be next? The Cloning Source Book addresses all of these questions in a way that is unique in the cloning literature, by grounding what is effectively an interdisciplinary conversation in solid science. In the first section of the book, the key scientists responsible for the early and crucial developments in cloning speak to us directly, and other scientists evaluate and comment on these developments. The second section explores the context of cloning and includes sociological, mythological, and historical perspectives on science, ethics, and policy. The authors also examine the media's treatment of the Dolly story and its aftermath, both in the United States and in Britain. The third section, on ethics, contains a broad range of papers written by some of the major commentators in the field. The fourth section addresses legal and policy issues. It features individual and collective contributions by those who have actually shaped public policy on reproductive cloning, therapeutic cloning, and similarly contentious bioethical issues in the United States, Britain, and the European Union. Animal cloning continues for agricultural and medicinal purposes, the latter in combination with transgenics. Human cloning for therapeutic purposes has recently been made legal in Britain. The goal is to produce an early embryo and then derive stem cells that are immunologically matched to the donor. Two human reproductive cloning projects have been announced, and there are almost certainly others about which we know nothing. Sooner or later a cloned human will be born. Many lessons can be learned from the cloning experience. Most importantly, there needs to be a public conversation about the permissible uses of new and morally murky technologies. Scientists, journalists, ethicists and policy makers all have roles to play, but cutting-edge science is everybody's business. The Cloning Sourcebook provides the tools required for us to participate in shaping our own futures.
Download or read book The Ethics of Human Cloning written by John Woodward and published by Greenhaven Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human cloning may be moving from the realm of science fiction to reality. Some see it as a reproductive right or believe the technology will lead to cures for a host of diseases. Others insist that all human cloning is immoral. In this timely anthology, authors examine the ramifications of both reproductive and therapeutic human cloning.
Download or read book Yes to Human Cloning written by Rael and published by Raelian Foundation. This book was released on 2001 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evigt liv genom kloning, är det möjligt? Ja, och det är dessutom bara början på hur vetenskapen och tekniken kommer att förändra våra liv och vårt samhälle. Det förklarar Rael i boken "Yes to human cloning". Rael blev världskänd år 2000 när företaget Clonaid annonserade att man lyckats klona fram en människa. Rael grundade Clonaid 1998 men har idag inte längre några bindningar till företaget. Rael ger i boken en fantastisk vision av hur vi inom kort kan ha ett samhälle utan föroreningar, utan arbetsplikt och där vi kan få mat på bordet endast genom att be en maskin om det. Allt detta tack vare framsteg inom genetik, nanoteknologi, kloning, rymdfart med mera. Ytterligare ämnen som Rael tar upp i sin bok är.. - Artificiell intelligens gör datorer och robotar smartare än människor. - Framtidens självförsörjande hus. - Genmodifierad mat innebär slutet på svält. - Biologiska robotar. - Rymdfarten avlivar myten om en Gud. - Ett samhälle inriktat på nöje. Enligt Rael kommer den här förändringen under en tjugoårsperiod. Det handlar inte om science fiction, vilket det kan verka som vid första anblicken. Rael grundar sina visioner på det möte han hade 1973 med en representant för en utomjordisk civilisation. Vid mötet fick Rael bland annat inblick i hur den utomjordiska civilisationens samhälle fungerar, samt kunskap om vilken framtid som väntar oss på jorden om vi använder vetenskapen för mänsklighetens bästa. Detta till skillnad från att använda den för militära ändamål.
Download or read book Illegal Beings written by Kerry Lynn Macintosh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-08-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people think human reproductive cloning should be a crime-some states have even outlawed it and Congress is working to enact a national ban. However, if reproductive cloning soon becomes a reality, it will be impossible to prevent infertile couples and others from choosing the technology, even if they have to break the law. While most books on cloning cover the advantages and disadvantages of cloning technology, Illegal Beings describes the pros and cons of laws against human reproductive cloning. Kerry Lynn Macintosh, an attorney with expertise in the area of law and technology, argues that the most common objections to cloning are false or exaggerated, inspiring laws that stigmatize human clones as subhuman and unworthy of existence. She applies the same reasoning that was used to invalidate racial segregation to show how anti-cloning laws, by reinforcing negative stereotypes, deprive human clones of their equal protection rights under the law. Her book creates a new topic within constitutional law: existential segregation, or the practice of discriminating by preventing the existence of a disfavored group or class. This comprehensive and novel work looks at how anti-cloning laws will hurt human clones in a fresh perspective on this controversial subject. Kerry Lynn Macintosh is a member of the Law and Technology faculty at Santa Clara University School of Law. She is the author of papers, articles, and book chapters on the law and technology and has contributed to the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, Boston University Journal of Science and Technology Law, and Berkeley Technology Law Journal.
Download or read book Ethical Issues in Human Cloning written by Michael C. Brannigan and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Fact Sheet An compelling overview, by experts such as Stephen Jay Gould & Andrea Dworkin, of the scientific, religious, philosophical, & legal arguments for & against human cloning. National marketing campaign including advertising in New York Review of Books, Lingua Franca.
Download or read book Flesh of My Flesh written by Gregory E. Pence and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1998 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of articles by Stephen Jay Gould, Leon Kass, William Safire, Peter Steinfels, and other scientists, philosophers, bioethicists, theologians, and law professors on the ethics of human cloning.
Download or read book After Dolly written by Ian Wilmut and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientist Ian Wilmut describes the process by which he and other researchers at Scotland's Roslin Institute cloned the first mammal, a sheep named Dolly, and makes a case for the medical uses of cloning.
Download or read book The Human Cloning Debate written by Arthur Caplan and published by . This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past year, stem cell research has exploded in South Korea and received $3 billion worth of research money in California, proving that the bioethics of cloning will only become more important in the future. For readers who want to be informed an increasingly important issue, "Human Cloning Debate collects trenchant analysis and revealing facts on the debate that began 10 years ago with Dolly the sheep. The book looks at things from multiple angles, including the scientific underpinnings, and the philosophical and religious implications. Responsive to the continuing evolution of the cloning issue, this edition features an emphasis on the arguments revolving around stem-cell technology.
Download or read book Cloning and the Future of Human Embryo Research written by Paul Lauritzen and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The possibility that human beings may soon be cloned has generated enormous anxiety and fueled a vigorous debate about the ethics of contemporary science. Unfortunately, much of this debate about cloning has treated cloning as singular and revolutionary. The essays in Cloning and the Future of Human Embryo Research place debates about cloning in the context of reproductive technology and human embryo research. Although novel, cloning is really just the next step in a series of reproductive interventions that began with in vitro fertilization in 1978. Cloning, embryo research, and reproductive technology must therefore be discussed together in order to be understood. The authors of this volume bring these topics together by examining the status of preimplantation embryos, debates about cloning and embryo research, and the formulation of public policy. The book is distinctive in framing cloning as inextricably tied to embryo research and in offering both secular and religious perspectives on cloning and embryo research.
