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Title Clones and clones : facts and fantasies about human cloning / edited by Martha C. Nussbaum and Cass R. Sunstein
Edition First edition
Published New York : Norton, [1998]
©1998

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Description 351 pages ; 22 cm
Contents Pt. I. Science. Viable Offspring Derived from Fetal and Adult Mammalian Cells / I. Wilmut, A. E. Schnieke and J. McWhir [et al.]. The Science and Application of Cloning / National Bioethics Advisory Commission. Dolly's Fashion and Louis's Passion / Stephen Jay Gould. What's Wrong with Cloning? / Richard Dawkins. Soul Searching / George Johnson -- Pt. II. Commentary. Sasha / Andrea Dworkin. Sheep, Joking, Cloning and the Uncanny / William Ian Miller. Sameness Is All / Adam Phillips. Queer Clones / William N. Eskridge, Jr. and Edward Stein. Sex and the Mythological Clone / Wendy Doniger -- Pt. III. Ethics and Religion. Cloning Human Beings: An Assessment of the Ethical Issues Pro and Con / Dan W. Brock. Religious Perspectives / National Bioethics Advisory Commission. To Clone or Not to Clone / Jean Bethke Elshtain. Human Cloning and the Public Realm: A Defense of Intuitions of the Good / David Tracy -- Pt. IV. Law and Public Policy
The Constitution and the Clone / Cass R. Sunstein. On Not Banning Cloning for the Wrong Reasons / Laurence Tribe. The Demand for Human Cloning / Eric A. Posner and Richard A. Posner. A Rush to Caution: Cloning Human Beings / Richard A. Epstein. On Order / Barbara Katz Rothman. Recommendations of the Commission / National Bioethics Advisory Commission -- Pt. V. Fiction and Fantasy. World of Strangers / Lisa Tuttle. Flourish Your Heart in This World / Felicia Ackerman. My Clone / C. K. Williams. Little C / Martha C. Nussbaum
Summary Distinguished scholars and writers from a broad range of disciplines address a troubling and fascinating issue
Analysis Cloning
Reproduction
Genetic engineering
Bioethics
Humour
Overseas item
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Human genetics -- Social aspects.
Human genetics -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Cloning -- Social aspects.
Cloning -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Human reproductive technology -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects.
Cloning -- Social aspects.
Cloning -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects.
Human reproductive technology -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Human genetics -- Social aspects.
Human genetics -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Human cloning -- Social aspects.
Human cloning -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Cloning, Organism.
Ethics, Medical.
Author Nussbaum, Martha Craven, 1947-
Sunstein, Cass R.
LC no. 97051781
ISBN 0393046486
0393320014 paperback