A clone of your own?
Subtitle: the science and ethics of cloning
By: Arlene Judith Klotzko.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
Subjects: Cloning; Cloning -- Moral and ethical aspects
Description: "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. Dolly was the culmination of a long scientific quest to understand the puzzle of our development from one cell into a complex organism - the outcome of a 'fantastic experiment' envisioned six decades before her birth." "Our fascination with cloning is about much more than science and its extraordinary medical implications. 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'."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-155) and index.