Screen LibraryCloning
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Greenhaven Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Detroit |
| Publication Dates: | c2006. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Contemporary issues companion |
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| Carrier Form: | 198 p.: ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0737727713 (lib. : alk. paper) 9780737727715 (lib. : alk. paper) 0737727721 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780737727722 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | Q785 |
| CLC: |
Q785 Q343.1 Q785-05 |
| Call Number: | Q785/C644-1 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-191) and index. Public attitudes toward cloning. What is a clone? / Jay D. Gralla, Preston Gralla ; Dolly is a symbol of the public's ideas about cloning / Dorothy Nelkin, M. Susan Lindee ; Common beliefs about human cloning are myths / Gregory E. Pence ; Human reproductive cloning should be banned, but therapeutic cloning should be allowed / Gerald Ford ; Both human reproductive cloning and therapeutic cloning should be banned / George W. Bush ; Religious views of cloning do not agree / Bob Sullivan -- The cloning of animals. Cloning may have limited applications in livestock farming / Suzanne Quick ; Cloning may help to save endangered species / Sylvia Pagaan Westphal ; Ethicists debate the cloning of pets / part I. R. Albert Mohler Jr. ; part II. Autumn Fiester ; Cloning dogs may lead to cures for human diseases / Choe Sang-Hun ; Animal cloning paves the way to human cloning / Gregory E. Pence -- Therapeutic cloning of human embryos for medical research. Cloned embryos are human beings / Robert P. George, Alfonso Gaomez-Lobo ; Cloned embryos are no more than cells / Ronald Bailey ; Stem cells from cloned embryos could help cure disease / John C. Avise ; The chance of medical benefits from therapeutic cloning is remote / Mark Derr ; Therapeutic cloning is urgently needed / Gregg Wasson ; Therapeutic cloning would lead to human reproductive cloning / Stuart Newman -- The prospect of human reproductive cloning. Human cloning would be damaging to society / President's Council on Bioethics ; A ban on human cloning would be unconstitutional / Mark D. Eibert ; Cloning humans is not yet safe / Arlene Judith Klotzko ; Identical twins are natural human clones / Susan Reed ; Human clones would be less alike than identical twins / John Charles Kunich ; Human clones would be treated as if they were exact copies / Soren Holm ; Human cloning would lead to a loss of empathy / Jeremy Rifkin ; Negative attitudes toward human clones would be discrimination / Julian Savulescu. |