Response to Special Section: Cloning: Technology, Policy, and Ethics (CQ Vol 7, No 2): Humanness, Personhood, and a Lamb Named Dolly
A recent issue of Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics provides a fascinating look into the uncertainties surrounding the subject of human cloning. As Nelkin and Lindee point out, for example, the popular assumption is that this technology will lead to individual immortality. “Again and again me...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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1999
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Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
Year: 1999, Volume: 8, Issue: 2, Pages: 241-245 |
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Summary: | A recent issue of Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics provides a fascinating look into the uncertainties surrounding the subject of human cloning. As Nelkin and Lindee point out, for example, the popular assumption is that this technology will lead to individual immortality. “Again and again media stories predict that cloning will allow the resurrection of the dead … life everlasting for the deserving.” This is not an attitude reserved to popular imagination, however. As John Harris noted in his contribution, for example, even the World Health Organization (WHO) “considers the use of cloning for the replication of human individuals to be ethically unacceptable.” |
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ISSN: | 1469-2147 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0963180199002145 |