Who's Afraid of Human Cloning?

Who's Afraid of Human Cloning?
Author: Gregory E. Pence
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1998
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780847687824

Gregory Pence offers a candid look at the arguments for and against human cloning.

Cloning After Dolly

Cloning After Dolly
Author: Gregory E. Pence
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2004
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780742534087

In a new book building on his classic Who's afraid of Human Cloning? Pence continues to advocate a reasoned view of cloning.

On Cloning

On Cloning
Author: John Harris
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2004
Genre: Human cloning
ISBN: 9780415316996

John Harris presents an informed defence of human cloning, carefully exposing the rhetorical and highly dubious arguments against it. He shows that far from ending the diversity of human life, cloning has the power to improve and heal human life.

Illegal Beings

Illegal Beings
Author: Kerry Lynn Macintosh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2005-08-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780521853286

Many people think human reproductive cloning should be a crime-some states have even outlawed it and Congress is working to enact a national ban. However, if reproductive cloning soon becomes a reality, it will be impossible to prevent infertile couples and others from choosing the technology, even if they have to break the law. While most books on cloning cover the advantages and disadvantages of cloning technology, Illegal Beings describes the pros and cons of laws against human reproductive cloning. Kerry Lynn Macintosh, an attorney with expertise in the area of law and technology, argues that the most common objections to cloning are false or exaggerated, inspiring laws that stigmatize human clones as subhuman and unworthy of existence. She applies the same reasoning that was used to invalidate racial segregation to show how anti-cloning laws, by reinforcing negative stereotypes, deprive human clones of their equal protection rights under the law. Her book creates a new topic within constitutional law: existential segregation, or the practice of discriminating by preventing the existence of a disfavored group or class. This comprehensive and novel work looks at how anti-cloning laws will hurt human clones in a fresh perspective on this controversial subject. Kerry Lynn Macintosh is a member of the Law and Technology faculty at Santa Clara University School of Law. She is the author of papers, articles, and book chapters on the law and technology and has contributed to the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, Boston University Journal of Science and Technology Law, and Berkeley Technology Law Journal.

Flesh of My Flesh

Flesh of My Flesh
Author: Gregory E. Pence
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1998
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780847689828

A collection of articles by Stephen Jay Gould, Leon Kass, William Safire, Peter Steinfels, and other scientists, philosophers, bioethicists, theologians, and law professors on the ethics of human cloning.

Human Cloning

Human Cloning
Author: Kerry Lynn Macintosh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2012-10-29
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1139852108

Since Dolly the sheep was born, controversy has swirled around the technology of cloning. We recoil at the prospect of human copies, manufactured men and women, nefarious impersonators and resurrections of the dead. Such reactions have serious legal consequences: lawmakers have banned stem cell research along with the cloning of babies. But what if our minds have been playing tricks on us? What if everything we thought we knew about human cloning is rooted in intuition rather than fact? Human Cloning: Four Fallacies and their Legal Consequences is a rollicking ride through science, psychology and the law. Drawing on sources ranging from science fiction films to the Congressional Record, this book unmasks the role that psychological essentialism has played in bringing about cloning bans. It explains how hidden intuitions have caused conservatives and liberals to act contrary to their own most cherished ideals and values.

The Ethics of Human Cloning

The Ethics of Human Cloning
Author: Leon Kass
Publisher: American Enterprise Institute
Total Pages: 138
Release: 1998
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780844740508

Today biological science is rising on a wall of worry. No other science has advanced more dramatically during the past several decades or yielded so many palpable improvements in human welfare. Yet, none except nuclear physics has aroused greater apprehensions among the general public and leaders in such diverse fields as religion, the humanities, and government. In this engaging book, Leon R. Kass, the noted teacher, scientist, humanist, and chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics, and James Q. Wilson, the preeminent political scientist to whom four United States presidents have turned for advice on crime, drug abuse, education, and other crises in American life, explore the ethics of human cloning, reproductive technology, and the teleology of human sexuality. Although in their lively dialgoue both authors share a fundamental distrust of the notion of human cloning, they base their resistance on different views of the role of sexual reproduction and the role of the family. Professor Kass contends that in vitro fertilization and other assisted reproudction technologies that place the origin of human life in human hands have eroded the respect for the mystery of sexuality and human renewal. Professor Wilson, in contrast, asserts that whether a human life is created naturally or artificially is immaterial as long as the child is raised by loving parents in a two-parent family and is not harmed by the means of its conception. This accessible volume promises to inform the public policy debate over the permissible conduct of genetic research and the permissible uses of its discoveries.

Human Cloning

Human Cloning
Author: Kerry Lynn Macintosh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2013
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1107031850

Unmasks the role of psychological essentialism in cloning bans, explaining how intuitions cause individuals to act against their own values.

Human Cloning and Human Dignity

Human Cloning and Human Dignity
Author: The President's Council on Bioethics
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-03-13
Genre:
ISBN: 9781508822318

The prospect of human cloning burst into the public consciousness in 1997, following the announcement of the successful cloning of Dolly the sheep. It has since captured much attention and generated great debate, both in the United States and around the world. Many are repelled by the idea of producing children who would be genetically virtually identical to preexisting individuals, and believe such a practice unethical. But some see in such cloning the possibility to do good for infertile couples and the broader society. Some want to outlaw it, and many nations have done so. Others believe the benefits outweigh the risks and the moral concerns, or they oppose legislative interference with science and technology in the name of freedom and progress. Complicating the national dialogue about human cloning is the isolation in 1998 of human embryonic stem cells, which many scientists believe to hold great promise for understanding and treating many chronic diseases and conditions. Some scientists also believe that stem cells derived from cloned human embryos, produced explicitly for such research, might prove to be uniquely useful for studying many genetic diseases and devising novel therapies. Public reaction to this prospect has been mixed, with some Americans supporting it in the hope of advancing biomedical research and helping the sick and the suffering, while others are concerned about the instrumentalization or abuse of nascent human life and the resulting danger of moral insensitivity and degradation.

How to Build a Better Human

How to Build a Better Human
Author: Gregory E. Pence
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2012-08-17
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1442217642

Medicine has recently discovered spectacular tools for human enhancement. Yet to date, it has failed to use them well, in part because of ethical objections. Meanwhile, covert attempts flourish to enhance with steroids, mind-enhancing drugs, and cosmetic surgery—all largely unstudied scientifically. The little success to date has been sporadic and financed privately. In How to Build a Better Human, prominent bioethicist Gregory E. Pence argues that people, if we are careful and ethical, can use genetics, biotechnology, and medicine to improve ourselves, and that we should publicly study what people are doing covertly. Pence believes that we need to transcend the two common frame stories of bioethics: bioconservative alarmism and uncritical enthusiasm, and that bioethics should become part of the solution—not the problem—in making better humans.