This scholarly book provides an analysis of cloning that is far wider in scope than any other I know of, presenting in great detail the observed or potential effects of entering a family in a variety of different ways, including through cloning. It provides the first framework for detailed analysis of the ethical, psychological, and social consequences of human reproductive cloning. It should inform discussion of any proposal to produce children by nuclear transfer who are genetically identical twins of another person.

Ian Wilmut, head of the Department of Gene Expression and Development, Roslin Institute, Edinburgh, Times Higher Education

For some time now, we have all been listening to a din of voices on cloning, each offering a different opinion on the genetics and medical aspects, ethics and religious implications. Now at last, thanks to Dr. Levick, we have a full, eloquent, knowing, and deeply humane account of human cloning and its potential for good or ill on the human psyche. In a careful analysis of various models of identity, Levick manages to avoid the mantras of the warring camps to reach his own position with balance, and with sensitivity to the needs of parents and children. This book will be an important addition to the growing literature on this exciting but uncertain new field of medical science.

Jason W. Brown, clinical professor of neurology, NYU Medical Center

In this brilliant and intriguing book, Levick anticipates the psychological and social consequences of human reproductive cloning. Containing a wealth of information drawn from the author's clinical experience and the psychiatric literature, this book is a welcome antidote to the hype and armchair speculation prompted by the prospect of cloning. Facts about identical twins, parent-child resemblance, and what happens when parents seek to replace a dead child are fascinating in their own right, and provide useful analogies for the implications of human cloning.

Ruth Macklin, Dr. Shoshanah Trachtenberg Frackman Faculty Scholar in Biomedical Ethics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

It will be a long time before we have actual empirical research on human clones. In Clone Being, Stephen Levick gives us the next best thing. His work may well stand as the blueprint for the kind of genuinely psychologically informed reasoning upon which we will need to depend when cloning becomes a reality. This is an extremely intriguing and important book.

Rogers Smith, Christopher H. Browne Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania

Clone Being is a deeply probing, predictive, and informative examination of a topic about which at present there are still mostly fears, dreams, and hopes. If Dr. Frankenstein had an opportunity to read Dr. Levick's book he might have been able to avoid the mistakes that he made!

J. Alexis Burland, M.D., distinguished life member of the American Psychiatric Association and training/supervising psychoanalyst at the Psychoanalytic C

This is a thought provoking and well argued book about the possible psychological and social well-being of cloned beings.

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