Cloning and the Future of Human Embryo Research (Hardcover)

The possibility that human beings may soon be cloned has generated enormous anxiety and fueled a vigorous debate about the ethics of contemporary science. Unfortunately, much of this debate about cloning has treated cloning as singular and revolutionary. The essays in Cloning and the Future of Human Embryo Research place debates about cloning in the context of reproductive technology and human embryo research. Although novel, cloning is really just the next step in a series of reproductive interventions that began with in vitro fertilization in 1978. Cloning, embryo research, and reproductive technology must therefore be discussed together in order to be understood. The authors of this volume bring these topics together by examining the status of preimplantation embryos, debates about cloning and embryo research, and the formulation of public policy. The book is distinctive in framing cloning as inextricably tied to embryo research and in offering both secular and religious perspectives on cloning and embryo research.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2001
First published:	2001
Editors:	Paul Lauritzen (Director, Program in Applied Ethics, and Chairman, Department of Religious Studies)
Dimensions:	241 x 163 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	304
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-512858-1
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > Medical ethics Books > Professional & Technical > Biochemical engineering > Biotechnology > Genetic engineering Books > Medicine > Pre-clinical medicine: basic sciences > Human reproduction, growth & development > Reproductive medicine > Embryology
LSN:	0-19-512858-3
Barcode:	9780195128581

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