Cloning After Dolly

Who's Still Afraid?

Cloning After Dolly

Who's Still Afraid?

Gregory E. Pence (Author)

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As the #1 topic in bioethics, cloning has made big news since Dolly's announced birth in 1998. In a new book building on his classic Who's Afraid of Human Cloning?, pioneering bioethicist Gregory E. Pence continues to advocate a reasoned view of cloning. Beginning with his surreal experiences as an expert witness before Congressional and California legislative committees, Pence analyzes the astounding recent progress in animal cloning; the coming surprises about human cloning; the links between animal, stem cell, and human cloning; embryo politics; and other hot topics like artificial wombs and transgenic animals.

Pence rebuts the growing chorus of naysayers headed by Leon Kass, chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics, who attack the biomedical sciences, and explains why cloning will save endangered species and beloved pets, and help future children and people with degenerative diseases.

Chapter 1 The Political Theater of Cloning
Chapter 2 How Cloning Will Surprise Us
Chapter 3 What Cloning Tells Us about Ourselves
Chapter 4 The Brave New World of Animal Cloning...
Chapter 5 Cloning Endangered Species and Pets
Chapter 6 Psst! Rael Wants to Sell You a Bridge in Brooklyn
Chapter 7 Does Cloning Harm the Souls of Cloned Children?
Chapter 8 Deciphering Cloning at the Earliest Stages of Life
Chapter 9 Why the World Should Not Ban Cloning
Chapter 10 Why Cloning Will Not Hurt Genetic Diversity
Chapter 11 Actors, Feminists, Marxists & Cloning
Chapter 12 Safe, Reproductive Cloning: Intrinsically Good
Chapter 13 Risking My Baby
Chapter 14 Should Cloned Kids be Outlaws
Chapter 15 Prelude to Cloning: Ethics of the Artificial Womb
Chapter 16 Humanzees, Transhumans, & Transgenic Species
Chapter 17 Cloning the Great: Three Challenges
Chapter 18 Gathering Darkness or Transhumanism?

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Published	Oct 21 2004
Format	Hardback
Edition	1st
Extent	208
ISBN	9780742534087
Imprint	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Dimensions	235 x 165 mm
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Author

Gregory E. Pence

In Cloning After Dolly, Greg Pence uses his very sharp analytic scalpel to dissect and demolish the arguments of those who oppose cloning and other biotech innovations.

John Robertson, University of Texas Law School
From Dolly's debut to the present, Greg Pence has been the leading voice of reason and compassion in the cloning debate. Once again he sallies forth with insight and humor to explode myths, expose prejudices, calm primitive fears, and replace science fiction hype with genuine human concerns. This is the most important book about cloning in years.

Mark Eibert, California trial attorney and leading advocate for infertile couples
Greg Pence is a voice of reason in a debate roiled by emotion. Years from now, Cloning After Dolly will be cited as an example of wise and humane reasoning at a time when many people, including leading bioethicists, allowed fear to rule their thinking.

Ronald M. Green, professor of ethics and religion, Dartmouth College
Cloning is the political powder keg of biotechnology today, and those in the pro-cloning camp will welcome this case against those they see, in Pence's words, as "the new Puritans of biotech."

Publishers Weekly
A medical ethicist offers a sober but ultimately encouraging assessment of the future of cloning, arguing ultimately that cloning will change the landscape of medicine and society in beneficial ways.

Forecast
The book is insightful and does a good job of battling media-fuelled prejudice.

Focus [Science and Technolgy]