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Nussbaum and Sunstein have collected a comprehensive set of essays on the implications of cloning, which has not been attempted with humans as of this writing, but almost surely will be within a few years. The editors include Ian Wilmut's original research paper reporting the existence of Dolly, the cloned sheep, as well as ethical analysis papers by popular science writers such as Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Dawkins. Four fiction pieces round out the collection. Opinion pieces on topics ranging from the soul of a clone to clones raised for body parts are the most interesting essays in the bunch. In the horror-scenario category, Andrea Dworkin takes the position that in a world where cloning is possible, men will clone only compliant women, at last gaining the control over reproduction they've always wanted. (Dworkin ignores the fact that no gene for compliance has yet been isolated.) Questions of nature versus nurture will presumably be answered in the brave new world of cloning, and many of the writers in Clones and Clones imagine the ramifications of finding out how much our lives are predestined by our DNA. Read this book before you donate your cells to the local lab. --Therese Littleton
From Publishers Weekly
This compendium?two-thirds original, the remainder reprint?of essays, short fiction and poetry on the headlining topic of cloning offers a variety of insights ranging from an anti-male screed by Andrea Dworkin to a wide-ranging and subtle tract on the mythopoetic antecedents of today's technology from religion scholar Wendy Doniger. With 24 contributors in five categories?science; commentary; ethics and religion; law and public policy; fiction and fantasy?including three presentations by the National Bioethics Advisory Commission, there is a predictable unevenness in the quality of the writing. Editors Nussbaum (The Fragility of Goodness) and Sunstein (Free Markets and Social Justice) provide two of the more interesting pieces, the former a short story and the latter an exegesis on the legal implications of cloning. Gifted essayist Stephen Jay Gould offers one of his patented mazelike gems that entertains as well as informs. Poet C.K. Williams provides a provocative and troubling prose poem that conjures up monstrous images from ancient mythology to Freud. This book establishes a platform from which the general reader may move into specific areas of concern on the controversial subject of cloning. The spectrum of authors and their varying perspectives in fact and fiction are assets to anyone who hopes to understand this broad issue and its vast cultural implications. Editor, Alane Mason.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Nussbaum and Sunstein have collected a comprehensive set of essays on the implications of cloning, which has not been attempted with humans as of this writing, but almost surely will be within a few years. The editors include Ian Wilmut's original research paper reporting the existence of Dolly, the cloned sheep, as well as ethical analysis papers by popular science writers such as Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Dawkins. Four fiction pieces round out the collection. Opinion pieces on topics ranging from the soul of a clone to clones raised for body parts are the most interesting essays in the bunch. In the horror-scenario category, Andrea Dworkin takes the position that in a world where cloning is possible, men will clone only compliant women, at last gaining the control over reproduction they've always wanted. (Dworkin ignores the fact that no gene for compliance has yet been isolated.) Questions of nature versus nurture will presumably be answered in the brave new world of cloning, and many of the writers in Clones and Clones imagine the ramifications of finding out how much our lives are predestined by our DNA. Read this book before you donate your cells to the local lab. --Therese Littleton
From Publishers Weekly
This compendium?two-thirds original, the remainder reprint?of essays, short fiction and poetry on the headlining topic of cloning offers a variety of insights ranging from an anti-male screed by Andrea Dworkin to a wide-ranging and subtle tract on the mythopoetic antecedents of today's technology from religion scholar Wendy Doniger. With 24 contributors in five categories?science; commentary; ethics and religion; law and public policy; fiction and fantasy?including three presentations by the National Bioethics Advisory Commission, there is a predictable unevenness in the quality of the writing. Editors Nussbaum (The Fragility of Goodness) and Sunstein (Free Markets and Social Justice) provide two of the more interesting pieces, the former a short story and the latter an exegesis on the legal implications of cloning. Gifted essayist Stephen Jay Gould offers one of his patented mazelike gems that entertains as well as informs. Poet C.K. Williams provides a provocative and troubling prose poem that conjures up monstrous images from ancient mythology to Freud. This book establishes a platform from which the general reader may move into specific areas of concern on the controversial subject of cloning. The spectrum of authors and their varying perspectives in fact and fiction are assets to anyone who hopes to understand this broad issue and its vast cultural implications. Editor, Alane Mason.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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