Foreword

I. THE LIMITS OF SCIENCE AND BIOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION

Ethics and Law in Biological Research

Human Genome Technology from the Viewpoint of Efficiency and Justice

The Human Genome Project and the Geneticists' Responsibility

Human Dignity as a Regulative Instrument for Human Genome Research

Bioethical Anxieties Concerning the Limits of Biological Research

The Perception of Possible Knowledge and Changes in Common Morality

Information and Decision

Biomedical Law: The Aims and Limits of Regulating Biomedical Science and Technology

The Epistemic State - The Legal Regulation of Science

II. CLONING: BIOLOGICAL AND MORAL ASPECTS

Some Fundamental Evils in Generating Human Embryos by Cloning

Thinking About Huxley's Brave New World: Was it Wrong to Create a Genetic Hierarchical Society? Is it Wrong to Prevent One?

From Random Procreation to Standardized Reproduction

The Problem of Reproductive Cloning

The Point of View of a Medical Geneticist on Human Cloning

The Mystery of the Scantiness of Arguments against Cloning

Making the Right Use of Law: The Cloning Dilemma

The Right to Genetic Disobedience: The Iceland Case

Medicine as Science and Art: Anxieties at the Dawn of the Third Millenium

Clones and Golems

III. CLONING IN POPULAR IMAGINATION

Doppelganger Temptations

After Dolly: New Forms of Genetics Capital

Cloning and Balanced Ethics

The Future of Clones

Cloning: Taboo Subject for Public Debate in France

Nude Pigs and Headless Clones

Dolly and deja vu: Facts and Fiction about Human Cloning

Index