Genetics - Mapping & Engineering, Genetics, Medical Ethics
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Overview
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.Editorials
Forecast
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.Focus [Science and Technolgy]
The book is insightful and does a good job of battling media-fuelled prejudice.John Robertson
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.Mark Eibert
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.Ronald M. Green
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.European Legacy -
...Pence's book is an important contribution to the ongoing debate on cloning, and an interesting read for any concerned individual.Publishers Weekly
Bioethicist Pence may make some readers' eyebrows shoot right off of their foreheads with his outright endorsement of reproductive as well as medical cloning. In his second book on the subject (after Who's Afraid of Human Cloning?), Pence argues for the legalization even of artificial wombs and transspecies hybrids. The author's arguments against some critiques of cloning hold some sway; he notes that most people's perception of cloning is based more on science fiction than science. He argues that anti-cloners like Leon Kass, who chaired the president's Council on Bioethics, draw false or irrelevant distinctions based on questions of human dignity and a religious view of the embryo as a human life. But Pence can be annoyingly glib before making his serious argument-for instance, noting that no one will eat embryos or wear them as earrings, so what's the dignity question about? He argues that cloning is actually a biological imperative: we must develop cloning technology in order to survive the next plague. 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." (Jan.) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.Book Details
Published
January 28, 2005
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pages
208
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780742534087