Flesh of My Flesh - The Ethics of Cloning Humans A Reader

The first book of its kind, Flesh of My Flesh is a collection of articles by today's most respected scientists, philosophers, bioethicists, theologians, and law professors about whether we should allow human cloning.

List of contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Moving toward the Clonal Man: Is This What We Want?
Chapter 3 Don't Worry: A Brain Still Can't Be Cloned
Chapter 4 The Wisdom of Repugnance
Chapter 5 Begetting and Cloning
Chapter 6 Cloning Human Beings
Chapter 7 Whose Self Is It, Anyway?
Chapter 8 Scientific Discoveries and Cloning: Challenges for Public Policy
Chapter 9 Wrongful Life, Federalism, and Procreative Liberty: A Critique of the NBAC Cloning Report
Chapter 10 Dolly's Fashion and Louis's Passion
Chapter 11 Clone Mammals . . . Clone Man?
Chapter 12 Will Cloning Harm People?
Chapter 13 The Confusion over Cloning
Chapter 14 Our Children, Our Selves: The Meaning of Cloning for Gay People
Chapter 15 Index

About the author

Gregory E. Pence is a medical ethicist with twenty years of experience reviewing significant cases in bioethics. He was one of the few bioethicists in North America to have publicly opposed President Clinton's ban on human cloning. He is professor of philosophy at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, and the author of Who's Afraid of Human Cloning? (Rowman & Littlefield, 1998) He lives in Birmingham, Alabama.

Summary

The first book of its kind, Flesh of My Flesh is a collection of articles by today's most respected scientists, philosophers, bioethicists, theologians, and law professors about whether we should allow human cloning.

Product details

• Assisted by: Gregory E Pence (Editor), Gregory E. Pence (Editor), Pence Gregory E. (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.05.1998
• EAN: 9780847689828
• ISBN: 978-0-8476-8982-8
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 167 mm x 228 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 254 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Chemical engineering; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); MEDICAL / Ethics, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, Bioethics, Genetic Engineering, Bio-ethics