Overview

Cloning: few words have as much potential to grip our imagination or grab the headlines. No longer the stuff of science fiction or Star Wars - it is happening now. Yet human cloning is currently banned throughout the world, and therapeutic cloning banned in many countries. In this highly controversial book, John Harris does a lot more than ask why we are so afraid of cloning. He presents a deft and informed defence of human cloning, carefully exposing the rhetorical and highly dubious arguments against it. He begins with a welcome introduction to what a human clone is, before tackling some of the most common and frequently bizarre criticisms of cloning: Is it really wicked? Can we regulate it? What about the welfare of cloned children? Does it turn human beings into commodities? Dismissing one by one some of the myths about human cloning, in particular that it is degrading and unsafe, he astutely argues that some of our most cherished values, such as the freedom to start a family and the freedom from state control, actually support the case for human cloning. Offering a brave and lucid insight into this ethical minefield, John Harris at last shows that far from ending the diversity of human life or creating a race of super-clones, cloning has the power to improve and heal human life.

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Author:   John Harris (University of Manchester, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 12.90cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 19.80cm
Weight:   0.226kg
ISBN:  

9780415317009

ISBN 10:   0415317002
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   16 June 2004
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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I think the book is a tour de force, and deserves to be widely read - by the uncommitted or the already convinced. <br>- Richard Ashcroft, Imperial College, London <br> Harris systematically, comprehensively and ruthlessly demolishes the opposition to cloning ... This book will change the way society views cloning. <br>-Julian Savulescu, University of Oxford <br>

'This much-needed book constitutes a magisterial demolition of woolly headed objections to cloning...With the rigorous applications of cold, hard logic Harris dismantles every objection that has been raised in the process...' - Steven Poole, The Guardian 'His arguments are lucid and irrefutable.' - Laurence Phelan, The Independent 'Whether one agrees or disagrees with Harris's arguments, this is a wonderful book. The arguments for and against human cloning are presented and confronted in a straightforward and unassuming, yet never in an over-simplifying or distorted manner. Clear, accessible and entertaining, this book makes excellent teaching and thinking material - and, perhaps unique in a serious bioethical work of this nature, is enjoyable reading not just for philosophers.' - The Cambridge Law Journal

'This much-needed book constitutes a magisterial demolition of woolly headed objections to cloning...With the rigorous applications of cold, hard logic Harris dismantles every objection that has been raised in the process...' - Steven Poole, The Guardian 'His arguments are lucid and irrefutable.' - Laurence Phelan, The Independent 'Whether one agrees or disagrees with Harris's arguments, this is a wonderful book. The arguments for and against human cloning are presented and confronted in a straightforward and unassuming, yet never in an over-simplifying or distorted manner. Clear, accessible and entertaining, this book makes excellent teaching and thinking material - and, perhaps unique in a serious bioethical work of this nature, is enjoyable reading not just for philosophers.' - The Cambridge Law Journal 'This much-needed book constitutes a magisterial demolition of woolly headed objections to cloning...With the rigorous applications of cold, hard logic Harris dismantles every objection that has been raised in the process...' - Steven Poole, The Guardian 'His arguments are lucid and irrefutable.' - Laurence Phelan, The Independent

'This much-needed book constitutes a magisterial demolition of woolly headed objections to cloning...With the rigorous applications of cold, hard logic Harris dismantles every objection that has been raised in the process...' - Steven Poole, The Guardian<br><br>'His arguments are lucid and irrefutable.' - Laurence Phelan, The Independent

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