Clones and Clones - Facts and Fantasies About Human Cloning (Paperback, Revised)

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

General

Imprint:	W W Norton & Co Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 1999
First published:	September 1999
Editors:	Martha C. Nussbaum • Cass R. Sunstein
Dimensions:	208 x 138 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	351
Edition:	Revised
ISBN-13:	978-0-393-32001-5
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Popular science Books > Professional & Technical > Biochemical engineering > Biotechnology > Genetic engineering
LSN:	0-393-32001-4
Barcode:	9780393320015

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