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Cloning: For and Against »

Authors: Ph.D. Milgram
ISBN-13: 9780812693751, ISBN-10: 0812693752
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Company
Date Published: January 1999
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Ph.D. Milgram

Book Synopsis

This collection of 30 articles by scientists, ethicists, religious leaders, and legal experts explores the benefits and costs of cloning. Topics include: Playing God; Is Cloning the Salvation for Endangered Species? No Need for Marriage; Can You Xerox a Soul?; and A Million Michael Jacksons. A lucid introduction offers readers an essential overview and understanding of the development and process of cloning, and the editors evenhandedly represent all sides of this controversial subject.

Midwest Book Review

Cloning: For and Against offers fifty-four articles by scientists, ethicists, legal experts and religious leader who explore the many benefits and costs of cloning. A lucid introduction offers readers an essential overview and understanding of the development and process of cloning, and the editors even-handedly represent all sides of this controversial subject. Enhanced with a bibliography and index, Cloning: For and Against is the ideal introduction to the subject of cloning which is so much at issue in our national debate.

	Preface
	Editors' Introduction: The Scientific Background	1
Pt. I	What Is Cloning?	13
1	A Clone Would Have a Soul	16
2	Our Genes Are Not Us	23
3	Clones Are Not Exact Copies	26
4	Artificial Twinning Is Not Cloning	28
5	There's Dispute over the Moral Status of a Cloned Cell	31
6	We're a Long Way from Designer Babies	36
Pt. II	First Reactions to Dolly	39
7	Cloning Forces Us to Face New Puzzles	42
8	Politicians Were Agitated by Dolly	45
9	There Is No Right to Clone	48
10	There's No Justification for an Outright Ban on Cloning	50
11	Clones Will Be Different	53
12	Cloning Offers New Hope for the Childless	57
Pt. III	The Issues in Brief	71
13	The Controversy over Cloning May Become More Furious than the Abortion Debate	74
14	The Balance of Opinion Is Against Cloning	77
15	Cloning Humans Is a Slippery Slope	80
16	Creation of Headless Humans Should be Banned	81
17	Similar Negative Reactions Greeted Previous Advances	84
Pt. IV	Do the Benefits of Cloning Outweigh the Risks?	87
18	A New Cloning Technique Opens Up Future Possibilities for Livestock and People	90
19	Dolly Has Stimulated Advances in Pharming	92
20	The Benefits and Dangers of Cloning Human Cells Are Not Those Most Talked About	97
21	Unmodified Nature Is Not Always Benign	100
22	Cloning Technology Will Yield Medical Benefits	106
23	A Cloned Gene Yields Stretchy Spider Silk	109
Pt. V	The Rights and Wrongs of Cloning	111
24	Modern Ideologues Have Forgotten What Medievals Knew	114
25	There Are No Appropriate Limits to Human Knowledge	116
26	We Should Not Do Everything We Can Do	120
27	Cloning Humans is Inhuman	123
28	The Standard Objections to Cloning Won't Bear Examination	126
29	The Cloning Issue Reveals Shortcomings in Bioethics	132
Pt. VI	Cloning and Religion	139
30	Some Religious Leaders Would Permit Cloning of Humans	142
31	Cloning Humans Should Never Be Attempted	146
32	Cloning Humans is Immoral	150
33	The Judeo-Christian Ethic Opposes Cloning	153
34	Human Cloning Is Not Against the Will of God	159
Pt. VII	Regulation of Reproduction or Reproductive Liberty?	163
35	Statement by RESOLVE	166
36	When It Comes to Cloning, Personal Choice Should Not Be the Final Word	167
37	Freedom to Reproduce is a Right	170
38	We Need Regulation of Reproduction	178
Pt. VIII	Is Sex Obsolete?	185
39	Sex Is Still Necessary	188
40	Males Have at Least One Use	190
41	Cloning Puts Future Human Evolution in Doubt	192
Pt. IX	The Nightmare of the Super Race	195
42	We Are Psychologically Unprepared for Cloning	198
43	Self-Replication Is Big in Hollywood	201
44	The Ethics of Cloning May Prove Harder than the Science	204
Pt. X	Science versus the Public Good?	213
45	Government Should Be Careful to Avoid Stopping Legitimate Research	214
46	Recombinant DNA Research Is Not Forbidden Knowledge	218
47	Cloning Serves the Interests of Those in Power	223
Pt. XI	Can Cloning Be Banned?	231
48	Nothing Can Stop the Cloning of Humans
49	Biomedical Groups Mobilize Against Prohibition of Cloning	237
50	The Senate Rejects a Bill to Ban Human Cloning	241
51	Europe Bans Human Cloning	246
52	Vital Medical Research Is Threatened by a Proposed Cloning Ban	248
53	A Proposed Cloning Ban Unconstitutionally Restricts Scientific Research	250
54	A False Sense of Urgency Has Driven the Cloning Debate	259
	Index	271

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