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Clones and Clones - Facts and Fantasies About Human Cloning (Paperback, Revised)
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Clones and Clones - Facts and Fantasies About Human Cloning (Paperback, Revised)
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Ever since Dolly the Sheep, the potential of human cloning has been
talked about as never before. Will it ever happen? Should it
happen? What would it mean? Why shouldn't it happen? Where can we
go from here (or 'there' if it does happen)? These and other
questions are thoroughly examined in this distinguished volume of
essays on cloning. Starting with the Nature paper that announced
Dolly's successful cloning, editors Nussbaum and Sunstein bring us
contributions from the worlds of science, commentary, ethics and
religion, law and public policy, and finally fiction and fantasy.
Contributors include Richard Dawkins, Stephen Jay Gould, Andrea
Dworkin, Adam Phillips, and 16 others. (Kirkus UK)
Human cloning is a prospect the contributors to Clones and Clones
view with varying degrees of alarm, calm, ambivalence, and not a
little humor. Ranging from psychoanalyst Adam Phillips's case study
of a child whose confusion of "cloning" and "clothing" expresses
our mixed desire and terror of sameness, to Stephen Jay Gould's and
Richard Dawkins's "characteristically pithy and intelligent" essays
(Civilization); from William Ian Miller's analysis of the
queasiness the subject elicits in many of us, to Martha Nussbaum's
witty and elegiac fantasy of the cloning of a lost lover-this
superb collection limns our beliefs and concerns about what it
means to be human. The writers here, says the San Diego
Union-Tribune, "comprise an eclectic group, but their observations
on the science and ethics of cloning, how it might fit into and
affect human society and what the future might bring are just the
sort of thinking that . . . we need more of." Praise for Clones and
Clones: "A worthy exploration of a discomfiting topic." - Foreign
Affairs "Greatly aid[s] the cloning debate." - Washington Post "The
spectrum of authors and their varying perspectives in fact and
fiction are assets to anyone who hopes to understand this broad
issue and its vast cultural implications." - Publishers Weekly
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