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A Clone of Your Own? describes the world of possibilities with regard to human cloning. It explains that the technology to create clones of living beings already exists, inaugurated in 1996 by Dolly the sheep, and shows why the prospect of human cloning triggers hopes and fears, forcing us to ponder what it means to be human. 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'. 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. 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. 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. Their goal is not to make copies of existing people, but to derive stem cells, the infinitely malleable raw material from which they hope to design therapies for currently untreatable diseases and the afflictions of old age.

Cloning --- Moral and ethical aspects

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Punishment --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Philosophy

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Alors que l'érotisme met en scène le mystère du sujet et de la sexualité, la pornographie flatte le voyeurisme et livre au regard un corps morcelé, privé de visage. Plaçant le spectateur dans le registre de la sensation et de la consommation, elle efface le désir lui-même. Elle conduit à l'asservissement et à la disparition de l'humanité de l'homme. Loin d'être un rappel à l'ordre, le livre de Michela Marzano permet de distinguer les enjeux éthiques qui sous-tendent les représentations du corps humain, et offre un plaidoyer pour la liberté et la responsabilité, afin que l'autre demeure celui dont la rencontre nous conduit au meilleur de nous-mêmes, voire au-delà.

Pornography --- Pornographie --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Social aspects --- Aspect moral --- Aspect social --- Moral and ethical aspects.

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The new reproductive technologies (NRTs) have given rise to new ethical questions that are widely debated. This book, the outcome of a European Union-wide collaborative process, draws on the experience and expertise of ethicists, lawyers, and clinical practitioners and focuses on some of the "burning issues" in different European countries. These include: donor insemination; surrogacy; preimplantation genetic diagnosis; embryo research; access to IVF treatment; and parental, professional and social responsibility. Familiar notions such as quality of life, parenthood, mothering, responsibility and personal identity surface at many points throughout the book and are refashioned to accommodate new questions.This book introduces and probes ethical questions and challenges in a hands-on way by working through relevant case studies with key commentaries and activities. It engages the reader directly in ethical reasoning and decision-making and provides clear explanations, insightful commentaries and informed debate on NRTs.

Human reproductive technology --- Infertility --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Treatment