Therapeutic human cloning has the potential significantly to reduce human suffering and
enhance human happiness. This is the main ethical argument in its favour. The main ethical …

The issue of human reproductive cloning has recently received a great deal attention in
public discourse. Bioethicists, policy makers, and the media have been quick to identify the …

This timely volume clearly lays out the central ethical questions raised by today's rapid
advances in biotechnology. James Peterson sorts through the maze of clinical decisions …

Appeals to human dignity, and to the moral obligation to protect it, have been a feature of
responses to the cloning of Dolly the sheep (Nature 385, 810–813; 1997). Dr Hiroshi …

The transplantation of adult human neural stem cells into prenatal non-humans offers an
avenue for studying human neural cell development without direct use of human embryos …

Chapter Summary In this chapter, Leon Kass, former chairperson of the United States
President's Council on Bioethics, discusses the ethics of human reproductive cloning. Kass …

Wiggins and his colleagues (2004) are to be commended for their willingness to raise the
question of the ethics of undertaking the world's first face transplant prior to initiating the …