Contributor
Rantala, M. L.
Imprint:Chicago, Ill. : Open Court, c1999.
Descriptionxi, 277 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:Clone would have a soul / Wray Herbert, Jeffery L. Sheler, and Traci Watson -- Our genes are not us / Robert Wright -- Clones are not exact copies / Marc Zabludoff -- Artificial twinning is not cloning / Josie Glausiusz -- There's dispute over the moral status of a cloned cell / Vincent Kiernan -- We're a long way from designer babies / Caroline Daniel -- Cloning forces us to face new puzzles / Bob Harris -- Politicians were agitated by Dolly / Beth Baker -- There is no right to clone / the editors of National Review -- There's no justification for an outright ban on cloning / Ruth Macklin -- Clones will be different / Christopher Wills -- Cloning offers new hope for the childless / Virginia Morell -- Controversy over cloning may become more furious than the abortion debate / Charles A. White -- Balance of opinion is against cloning / Jim Motavalli and Tracey C. Rembert -- Cloning humans is a slippery slope / the editors of National Review -- Creation of headless humans should be banned / Charles Krauthammer -- Similar negative reactions greeted previous advances / Michael Gough -- New cloning technique opens up future possibilities for livestock and people / Mark Nichols -- Dolly has stimulated advances in pharming / Elizabeth Pennisi -- Benefits and dangers of cloning human cells are not those most talked about / J. Madeleine Nash -- Unmodified nature is not always benign / Virginia I. Postrel -- Cloning technology will yield medical benefits / Robert Winston -- Cloned gene yields stretchy spider silk / Mari N. Jensen -- Modern ideologues have forgotten what medievals knew / the editors of National Review -- There are no appropriate limits to human knowledge / Tom Harkin -- We shold not do everything we can do / John Garvey -- Cloning humans is inhuman / Commonweal -- Standard objections to cloning won't bear examination / Ronald Bailey -- Cloning issue reveals shortcomings in bioethics / Daniel Callahan -- Some religious leaders would permit cloning of humans / The Christian Century -- Cloning humans should never be attempted / John Frederic Kilner -- Cloning humans is immoral / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- Judeo-Christian ethic opposes cloning / Stephen Garrard Post -- Human cloning is not against the will of God / Gregory E. Pence -- Statement by RESOLVE / Diane D. Aronson -- When it comes to cloning, personal choice should not be the final word / Thomas A. Shannon -- Freedom to reproduce is a right / Mark D. Eibert -- We need regulation of reproduction / Lori B. Andrews -- Sex is still necessary / David Stipp -- Males have at least one use / The New Leader -- Cloning puts future human evolution in doubt / Michael Mautner -- We are psychologically unprepared for cloning / Barry Came -- Self-replication is big in Hollywood / Brian D. Johnson -- Ethics of cloning may prove harder than the science / Jeffrey Kluger -- Government should be careful to avoid stopping legitimate research / Art Levinson -- Recombinant DNA research is not forbidden knowledge / Stephen E. Toulmin -- Cloning serves the interests of those in power / Jonathan Beckwith -- Nothing can stop the cloning of humans / Charles Krauthammer -- Biomedical groups mobilize against prohibition of cloning / Eliot Marshall -- Senate rejects a bill to ban human cloning / Vincent Kiernan -- Europe bans human cloning / Teresa Malcolm -- Vital medical research is threatened by a proposed cloning ban / Edward Kennedy -- Proposed cloning ban unconstitutionally restricts scientific research / Susan M. Wolf -- False sense of urgency has driven the cloning debate / Andrea L. Bonnicksen.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
