The Ethics of Human Cloning pdf

Author: Leon R. Kass
Edition: 1st
Publisher: Aei Press
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0844740500

The Ethics of Human Cloning

Today biological science is rising on a wall of worry. Medical books The Ethics of Human Cloning. No other science has advanced more dramatically during the past several decades or yielded so many palpable improvements in human welfare. Yet, none except nuclear physics has aroused greater apprehensions among the general public and leaders in such diverse fields as religion, the humanities, and government.

In this engaging book, Leon R. Kass, the noted teacher, scientist, humanist, and chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics, and James Q Medical books Ethics of Human Cloning. Categories: Human cloning->Moral and ethical aspects. Contributors: John Woodward - Author. Format: Paperback

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Categories: Human cloning->Moral and ethical aspects. Contributors: John Woodward - Author. Format: Paperback

author john woodward format hardback language english subject social sciences subject 2 social issues services welfare title at issue series the ethics of human cloning hardcover edition at issue series author john woodward publisher greenhaven pr publication date sep 01 2004 pages 111 binding lib edition 1 st dimensions 6 25 wx 9 25 hx 0 40 d isbn 0737721863 subject juvenile nonfiction science nature biology description explores such issues regarding human cloning as reproductive cloning ther

Medical Book The Ethics of Human Cloning

No other science has advanced more dramatically during the past several decades or yielded so many palpable improvements in human welfare. Yet, none except nuclear physics has aroused greater apprehensions among the general public and leaders in such diverse fields as religion, the humanities, and government.

In this engaging book, Leon R. Kass, the noted teacher, scientist, humanist, and chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics, and James Q. Wilson, the preeminent political scientist to whom four United States presidents have turned for advice on crime, drug abuse, education, and other crises in American life, explore the ethics of human cloning, reproductive technology, and the teleology of human sexuality.

Although in their lively dialgoue both authors share a fundamental distrust of the notion of human cloning, they base their resistance on different views of the role of sexual reproduction and the role of the family. Professor Kass contends that in vitro fertilization and other assisted reproudction technologies that place the origin of human life in human hands have eroded the respect for the mystery of sexuality and human renewal. Professor Wilson, in contrast, asserts that whether a human life is created naturally or artificially is immaterial as long as the child is raised by loving parents in a two-parent family and is not harmed by the means of its conception.

This accessible volume promises to inform the public policy debate over the permissible conduct of genetic research and the permissible uses of its discoveries.This slim volume is the best introduction to the ethical debate over human cloning now available, as two of America's most respected public intellectuals tangle over the question of whether it's a good idea to let people make genetic duplicates of themselves. Kass is firmly against human cloning; Wilson, although not exactly an enthusiast, sees no essential problem with it as long as cloned children are raised in loving, two-parent households.

The book is divided into two parts, with each writer laying out an initial position followed by mutual critiques. Kass seems to get the better of the exchange, but both writers present their views clearly, with occasional humor. (Wilson at one point shrugs off the concern that cloning will replace sexual reproduction: "Sex is more fun than cloning.... Procreation is a delight.") This outstanding book will shape a debate that's only just gotten underway. --John J. Miller