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.
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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. -- The Midwest Book Review
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President Clinton, Ian Wilmut, National Bioethics Advisory Commission, United States, Richard Seed, National Review, New York Times, Roslin Institute, National Institutes of Health, Charles Krauthammer, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Michael Jordan, Nobel Prize, Old Testament, The Boys, Advanced Cell Technology, Bill Clinton, Chronicle of Higher Education, Congressional Record, George Washington University, Robert Winston, Roman Catholic, Senator Bond, Supreme Court, University of Wisconsin New!
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embryo cell nuclear transfer, somatic cell cloning, capture silk, cloning policy, biomedical groups, cloning ban, human cloning research, banning human cloning, somatic cell nuclear transfer, cloning lab, embryo splitting, nuclear transfer technology, cloning human beings, cow eggs, cloned cell, voluntary moratorium, human clone, mammary cell, sheep cloned, cloning technology, adult cell, cloned embryos, embryo research Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
President Clinton, Ian Wilmut, National Bioethics Advisory Commission, United States, Richard Seed, National Review, New York Times, Roslin Institute, National Institutes of Health, Charles Krauthammer, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Michael Jordan, Nobel Prize, Old Testament, The Boys, Advanced Cell Technology, Bill Clinton, Chronicle of Higher Education, Congressional Record, George Washington University, Robert Winston, Roman Catholic, Senator Bond, Supreme Court, University of Wisconsin New!
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- Health and Safety (Statutory Instruments) by The Stationery Office in Front Matter, and page 269
- Remaking Eden by Lee M. Silver on page 59, and page 98
- Fabricated Man: The Ethics of Genetic Control (Yale Fastbacks) by Paul Ramsey on page 137, and page 162
- Boys from Brazil by Ira Levin on page 197, and page 208
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley on page 146, and page 235
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- How Safe Is Safe Enough?: Obligations to the Children of Reproductive Technology by Philip G. Peters Jr. on 4 pages
- The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule by Michael Shermer in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Borderlands of Science: Where Sense Meets Nonsense by Michael Shermer in Back Matter
- Human Genetic Engineering: A Guide for Activists, Skeptics, and the Very Perplexed by Pete Shanks on page 75
- On Cloning (Thinking in Action) by John Harris in Back Matter
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