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Author:   Paul Lauritzen (Director, Program in Applied Ethics, and Chairman, Department of Religious Studies, John Carroll University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.609kg
ISBN:  

9780195128581

ISBN 10:   0195128583
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   01 January 2001
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Introduction ; 1. Respect for Human Embryos ; 2. Source or Resource ; 3. Creating Embryos for Research: On Weighing Symbolic Costs ; 4. Casuistry, Virtue, and the Slippery Slope: Major Problems with Producing Human Embryonic Life for Research Purposes ; 5. Every Cell is Sacred: Logical Consequences of the Arguement from the Potential in the Age of Cloning ; 6. Cloning Human Beings: An Assessment of the Ethical Issues Pro and Con ; 7. Much Ado About Mutton: An Ethical Review of the Cloning Controversy ; 8. Born Again: Faith and Yearning in the Cloning Controversy ; 9. Responsibility and Regulation: Reproductive Technologies, Cloning, and Embryo Research ; 10. Consensus, Ethics, and Politics in Cloning and Embryo Research ; 11. Morality, Religion, and Public Bioethics: Shifting the Paradigm for the Public Discussion of Embryo Research and Human Cloning ; 12. The Law Meets Reproductive Technology: The Prospect of Human Cloning ; Appendix 1 Executive Summary, Human Embryo Research Panel Report ; Appendix 2 Executive Summary, National Bioethics Advisory Commission Report, Cloning Human beings ; Appendix 2a Excerpts, Chapter 2, National Bioethics Advisory Commission Report, Cloning Human Beings

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