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Response to Special Section: Cloning: Technology, Policy, and Ethics (CQ Vol 7, No 2)

Humanness, Personhood, and a Lamb Named Dolly

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 1999

Tom Koch
Affiliation:
David-See-Chai Lam Centre for International Communications, Simon Fraser University, Harbour Centre, Vancouver Canada
Mary Rowell
Affiliation:
Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics, Toronto, Canada

Abstract

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.”

Type
RESPONSES AND DIALOGUE
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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