The first item in this useful book is the original scientific paper that announced the birth of Dolly, and it contains also the recommendations on cloning of the National Bioethics Advisory Committee convened by President Clinton. Some of the pieces by lawyers or moral philosophers are useful head-clearing exercises. But the most helpful essays are those in which the author has a clear understanding of genetics and what cloning really is. Ignorance is not bliss. If you want to make an intelligent contribution to this argument, you need to learn at least some genetics.
Human engineering raises big moral issues.
But the one cannot be understood without the other. How you should live depends in part on how the world is. If the power of genetics is to be used wisely, probable fact has to be distinguished from scarifying fantasy.