Cloning After Dolly

by Pence, Gregory E.

• ISBN13: 9780742534087
• ISBN10: 0742534081
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-11-01
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc

Summary

In a new book building on his classic Who's afraid of Human Cloning? Pence continues to advocate a reasoned view of cloning.

Author Biography

Gregory E. Pence has taught for nearly thirty years in the Philosophy Department and School of Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Table of Contents

Preface: The Political Theater of Cloning	ix
Acknowledgments	xv
How Cloning Will Surprise Us	1	(9)
What Cloning Tells Us about Ourselves	10	(6)
The Brave New World of Animal Cloning: Racing Mules and Million Dollar Cows	16	(14)
Cloning Endangered Species and Pets	30	(8)
Psst! Rael Wants to Sell You the Brooklyn Bridge	38	(6)
Does Cloning Harm the Souls of Cloned Children?	44	(8)
Deciphering Cloning at the Earliest Stages of Life	52	(17)
Does One Kind of Cloning Beget Another?	69	(13)
Why Cloning Will Not Affect Genetic Diversity	82	(8)
Marxists, Feminists, and Actors on Cloning	90	(10)
Is Safe Reproductive Cloning Good?	100	(16)
Risking My Baby	116	(6)
Should Cloned Children Be Outlaws?	122	(11)
Prelude to Cloning: The Ethics of Out-of-Body Gestation	133	(11)
Humanzees, Transhumans, and Transgenic Animals	144	(18)
Three Challenges to Cloning Great People	162	(13)
Gathering Darkness or Transhumanist Light?	175	(8)
Notes	183	(18)
Index	201	(10)
About the Author	211