The announcement last spring that a lab in Scotland had
successfully cloned a mammal captured the attention of the media
and the imagination of the public. This culmination of decades of
research has profound scientific and ethical implications. If
applied to other species, cloning could further genetic engineering
and greatly improve animal husbandry. Now that a sheep has been
cloned, are humans next? Governments reacted swiftly with bans on
funding for human cloning research. Churches united in calling for
a complete ban on the cloning of higher animals. Critics
immediately alluded to Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" and the myth
of Icarus. Has scientific sophistication outpaced our social and
moral development? Can we "save" our society from this possible
evil by banning any attempts to expand the knowledge? Does cloning
really differ in spirit from the selective breeding that humankind
has performed for centuries? "Cloning: For and Against" comprises
30 articles by scientists, ethicists, religious leaders and legal
experts who explore the benefits and costs of cloning. Topics
include: playing God: is cloning against human nature?; is cloning
the salvation for endangered species?; no need for marriage: the
separation of reproduction from human relationships; can you xerox
a soul? and other theological issues; Brave New World: what's
possible and what isn't; clones in medicine; and a million Michael
Jacksons: eugenic/dysgenic and cultural consequences of human
cloning.
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