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Cloning

Clone : The Road to Dolly, and the Path Ahead
By Gina Bari Kolata

Hardcover - 288 pages (January 1998)
William Morrow & Company; ISBN: 0688156924 ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.00 x 9.55 x 6.41
Other Editions: Paperback

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In February 1997 a group of Scottish livestock scientists announced that they had cloned a lamb using a cell from an adult sheep. "When the time comes to write the history of our age, this quiet birth, the creation of this little lamb, will stand out," says award-winning science writer Gina Kolata. In Clone, she gives a clear account of the technical background to Dolly's birth, but what makes the book really shine is her coverage of the history and social conflicts of cloning. She weaves stories of fraud, scandal, irreproducible results, and pig-headed determination into a solid framework of philosophy, science, and ethics.

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Clones & Clones: Facts & Fantasies About Human Cloning

by Cass R. Sunstein & Martha C. Nussbaum

Hardcover
W.W.Norton & company,Aug. 1998
ISBN: 0393046486
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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 Stephan 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

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The Ethics of Human Cloning
by Leon R. Kass, James Q. Wilson

Hardcover - 122 pages (June 1, 1998)
Aei Pr; ISBN: 0844740500 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.65 x 7.60 x 5.37
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This slim volume is the best introduction to the ethical debate over human cloning now available, as two of America's most respected public intellectuals tangle over the question of whether it's a good idea to let people make genetic duplicates of themselves. Kass is firmly against human cloning; Wilson, although not exactly an enthusiast, sees no essential problem with it as long as cloned children are raised in loving, two-parent households.

The book is divided into two parts, with each writer laying out an initial position followed by mutual critiques. Kass seems to get the better of the exchange, but both writers present their views clearly, with occasional humor. (Wilson at one point shrugs off the concern that cloning will replace sexual reproduction: "Sex is more fun than cloning.... Procreation is a delight.") This outstanding book will shape a debate that's only just gotten underway. --John J. Miller
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Cloning : Science & Society (Ideas in Conflict Series)
by Gary E. McCuen (Editor)
Library Binding - 144 pages (January 1998)
Gem Pubns; ISBN: 0865961433 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.53 x 9.23 x 6.37
Table of Contents
Ideas in Conflict
Chapter 1 HUMAN CLONING: AN OVERVIEW
1. HUMAN CLONING AND PUBLIC POLICY
Irene Stith-Coleman
2. THE LEGAL STATUS OF CLONING
National Bioethics Advisory Commission
3. AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
Bartha Maria Knoppers
WHAT IS EDITORIAL BIAS? Reasoning Skill Activity
Chapter 2 CLONING HUMAN BEINGS
4. ADULT CELL CLONING AND EMBRYO SPLITTING: AN OVERVIEW
Karen H. Rothenberg
5. EMBRYO CLONING: THE POINT
Richard A. McCormick
6. EMBRYO CLONING: THE COUNTERPOINT Human Embryo Research Panel
7. CLONING SHOULD NOT BE BANNED John A. Robertson
8. THE NECESSITY OF A PERMANENT BAN
Leon Kass
9. A DECLARATION IN DEFENSE OF CLONING
International Academy of Humanism
10. A DECLARATION IN OPPOSITION
Edmund D. Pellegrino
11. ETHICAL COUNTERPOINTS ON HUMAN
CLONING: AN OVERVIEW Ezekiel J. Emanuel
RECOGNIZING AUTHOR'S POINT OF VIEW Reasoning Skill Activity
Chapter 3 ANIMAL CLONING
12. SOCIETY SHOULD BAN ANIMAL CLONING Jeremy Rifkin
13. ANIMAL CLONING SHOULD CONTINUE
Lester M. Crawford
14. THE SOCIAL COST OF ANIMAL CLONING
Michael W. Fox
15. THE ADVANTAGES OF ANIMAL CLONING
National Bioethics Advisory Commission
16. ANIMALS NOT SUITABLE MODELS FOR
RESEARCH ON HUMAN DISEASE
Physicians' Committee for Responsible
Medicine
17. THE SCIENTIFIC BENEFITS OF CLONING ANIMALS
James A. Geraghty
18. THE PROMISE OF DOLLY: POINTS &
COUNTERPOINTS
Caird E. Rexroad, Jr., v. The Humane Society of the United States
INTERPRETING EDITORIAL CARTOONS Reasoning Skill Activity
Chapter 4 RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS AND CLONING
19. A COMPARISON OF RELIGIOUS VIEWS ON
CLONING
Courtney S. Campbell a. Native American
b. Buddhism
c. Hinduism
d. Islam e. Judaism
f. Protestant Christianity: Mainline
g. Protestant Christianity: Conservative Evangelical
h. Roman Catholic Christianity
i. Orthodox Christianity
j. African American Churches
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Useful Research Materials
INDEX
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