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A Clone of Your Own? Arlene Judith Klotzko (University College London)

A Clone of Your Own? By Arlene Judith Klotzko (University College London)

A Clone of Your Own? by Arlene Judith Klotzko (University College London)


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In A Clone of Your Own? Arlene Judith Klotzko describes this new world of possibilities created by the inevitability of cloning, and shows why the prospect of human cloning triggers our dearest hopes and especially our darkest fears, forcing us to ponder anew what it means to be human. And what it would be like to have 'a clone of your own.'

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A Clone of Your Own? by Arlene Judith Klotzko (University College London)

Someday soon (if it hasn't happened in secret already), a human will be cloned, and mankind will embark on a scientific and moral journey whose destination cannot be foretold. In A Clone of Your Own?, Arlene Judith Klotzko describes the new world of possibilities that can be glimpsed over the horizon. In a lucid and engaging narrative, she explains that the technology to create clones of living beings already exists, inaugurated in 1996 by Dolly the sheep, the first mammal cloned from a single adult cell. Scientists have since cloned mice, cows, goats, pigs, rabbits, horses, rats, a cat and a mule. Using the same laboratory tools and techniques, other researchers are trying to grow embryos, cloned from a single cell of a human being. In riveting prose, full of allusions to literature, psychology, art, music, and the cinema, Klotzko shows why the prospect of human cloning triggers our dearest hopes and especially our darkest fears, forcing us to ponder anew what it means to be human. And what it would be like to have 'a clone of your own'.

A Clone of Your Own? Reviews

'... a wonderfully accessible account of the science involved in cloning and of the moral issues that surround it.' Mary Warnock

Table of Contents

List of illustrations; Introduction. Facts and fictions; 1. Power without responsibility?: creating life in the laboratory; 2. Reversal of fortune: the science of cloning; 3. Animal farm: cloning applications; 4. Building your own body repair kit: cloning for cell therapies; 5. A chip off the old block: cloning for human reproduction; 6. Double trouble: the fragility of identity; Conclusion. There's only one Mona Lisa; Further reading; Index.

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CIN0521852943G
9780521852944
0521852943
A Clone of Your Own? by Arlene Judith Klotzko (University College London)
Used - Good
Hardback
Cambridge University Press
20060116
200
N/A
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