Cloning After Dolly: Who's Still Afraid?As the #1 topic in bioethics, cloning has made big news since Dolly's announced birth in 1998. In a new book building on his classic Who's Afraid of Human Cloning?, pioneering bioethicist Gregory E. Pence continues to advocate a reasoned view of cloning. Beginning with his surreal experiences as an expert witness before Congressional and California legislative committees, Pence analyzes the astounding recent progress in animal cloning; the coming surprises about human cloning; the links between animal, stem cell, and human cloning; embryo politics; and other hot topics like artificial wombs and transgenic animals. Pence rebuts the growing chorus of naysayers headed by Leon Kass, chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics, who attack the biomedical sciences, and explains why cloning will save endangered species and beloved pets, and help future children and people with degenerative diseases. |
Contents
How Cloning Will Surprise Us | 1 |
What Cloning Tells Us about Ourselves | 10 |
The Brave New World of Animal Cloning Racing Mules and Million Dollar Cows | 16 |
Cloning Endangered Species and Pets | 30 |
Psst Rael Wants to Sell You the Brooklyn Bridge | 38 |
Does Cloning Harm the Souls of Cloned Children? | 44 |
Deciphering Cloning at the Earliest Stages of Life | 52 |
Does One Kind of Cloning Beget Another? | 69 |
Risking My Baby | 116 |
Should Cloned Children Be Outlaws? | 122 |
Prelude to Cloning The Ethics of OutofBody Gestation | 133 |
Humanzees Transhumans and Transgenic Animals | 144 |
Three Challenges to Cloning Great People | 162 |
Gathering Darkness or Transhumanist Light? | 175 |
Notes | 183 |
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Why Cloning Will Not Affect Genetic Diversity | 82 |
Marxists Feminists and Actors on Cloning | 90 |
Is Safe Reproductive Cloning Good? | 100 |
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