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Tables of Contents for Perfect Copy
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of illustrations
vi
About the author
vii
Acknowledgements
vii
INTRODUCTION TO THE SCIENCE AND ETHICS OF HUMAN CLONING
1
10
Perils and possibilities
1
6
Hollywood misses the point
7
4
1 THE RULES OF ETHICAL ENGAGEMENT
11
10
The intrinsic value of human fife
11
5
Two ways to be inconsistent about human cloning
16
1
Why appeals to God, or to 'our guts', won't work
17
4
2 EXPLAINING SOMATIC CELL NUCLEAR TRANSFER (SCNT)
21
27
What is a clone?
21
3
How would clones be made?
24
5
Two barriers in the way of cloning humans
29
4
Turning back the biological clock
33
4
Cloning or clowning? Two false alarms
37
2
Well hello, 6LL3!
39
3
Is Dolly for real?
42
5
Mice, cows, pigs, goats, cats, rabbits...and a gaur
47
1
3 CLONING AFTER DOLLY
48
34
Cloning and error
48
1
Cloning is inefficient and clones are sickly
49
6
Are clones unhealthy because they have shorter telomeres?
55
3
Are clones unhealthy because nuclear transfer does not properly reprogram genes?
58
4
Are clones unhealthy simply because they are created without sex?
62
4
What does the 'too dangerous' objection show?
66
2
Using abortion as a means of reducing the risks associated with reproductive cloning
68
6
How effective would selective abortion be, anyway?
74
3
Is it possible to harm someone by bringing them into existence as a clone?
77
5
4 THERAPEUTIC CLONING
82
27
Two reasons to clone humans
82
3
A new kind of transplant medicine?
85
6
Practical problems with therapeutic cloning
91
3
Therapeutic cloning and the annihilation of human potential
94
3
Natural and artificial potential
97
4
Building a human kidney
101
1
...or finding one in a pig
102
2
The human spare-parts body
104
5
5 CLONINGAND IMMORTALITY
109
26
Three senses of identity
114
2
Would my clone be identically similar to me?
116
5
Just how similar would my clone be to me?
121
4
Would my clone be metaphysically identical to me?
125
7
What remains of the quest for immortality?
132
2
Does cloning harm our subjective senses of who we are?
134
1
6 JUST ANOTHER REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY?
135
25
Making babies
135
2
The clone-family?
137
2
Biological and social parenthood
139
5
Cloning for the clinically infertile
144
1
Valuing the genetic link
145
3
Cloning might produce 'replacement' children for bereaved couples
148
1
Cloning might allow lesbians to reproduce without men
149
1
Cloning might provide a child who can also be an organ donor
150
1
Making moral judgements about the reproductive choices of others
151
1
Replacing a lost child?
152
1
Cloning as a means of improving the human species?
153
4
Clones as means to other ends?
157
3
7 FEAR ITSELF CAN BE FRIGHTENING
160
13
Clones in the popular imagination
160
4
Liberal optimism about the truth
164
4
Not surrendering to irrational prejudice?
168
2
The future of human cloning
170
3
FURTHER READING
173
3
GLOSSARY
176
5
INDEX
181