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The Uses and Misuses of Human Cloning
W. W. Norton
June 2006
256 pages ISBN: 0393060667 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
A brave, moral argument for cloning and its power to
fight disease. A timely investigation into the ethics, history, and
potential of human cloning from Professor Ian Wilmut, who
shocked scientists, ethicists, and the public in 1997 when
his team unveiled Dolly--that very special sheep who was
cloned from a mammary cell. With award-winning science
journalist Roger Highfield, Wilmut explains how Dolly
launched a medical revolution in which cloning is now used
to make stem cells that promise effective treatments for
many major illnesses. Dolly's birth also unleashed an
avalanche of speculation about the eventuality of cloning
babies, which Wilmut strongly opposes. However, he does
believe that scientists should one day be allowed to combine
the cloning of human embryos with genetic modification to
free families from serious hereditary disease. In effect, he
is proposing the creation of genetically altered humans. 20
illustrations.
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