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Clone Being: Exploring the Psychological and Social Dimensions

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CloneBeing is a brilliantly explicated book on the psychological and social implications of human cloning. For those readers whose first question might be:"Why should I read a book about cloning?"; my response would be that this book explores the many models of parenting which serve as analogies to cloning. Models which are commonplace today, but as sci fi at one time as cloning seems today. Dr. Levick provides many illuminating chapters on the psychological similarities for the parent-child relationship in models such as: The Identical Twin, Assisted Reproduction: The Stepchild; The Adoption; The Parent-Child Resemblance; The child of the famous person; The replacement and namesake child. Most of us have at least a passing familiarity with these models, if not a personal experience of them. The insights Dr. Levick brings to these issues include the motivations of the adults as well as the consequences to the child. It is fascinating and provocative reading. He ends with policy implications, and offers a way for ethics to catch up to science.
As a reader I am often guilty of skimming a book before buying it; and then skimming it as a form of "reading it." This is a book well worth buying, and then a pleasure to read and soak up its valuable observations. I highly recommend it.