Includes bibliographical references

Viable offspring derived from fetal and adult mammalian cells / I. Wilmut, A.E. Schnieke, J. McWhir, A.J. Kind, and K.H.S. Campbell -- The science and application of cloning / National Bioethics Advisory Commission -- Dolly's fashion and Louis's passion / Stephen Jay Gould -- What's wrong with cloning? / Richard Dawkins -- Soul searching / George Johnson -- Sasha / Andrea Dworkin -- Sheep, joking, cloning and the uncanny / William Ian Miller -- Sameness is all / Adam Phillips -- Queer clones / William N. Eskridge, Jr. and Edward Stein -- Sex and the mythological clone / Wendy Doniger -- Cloning human beings: an assessment of the ethical issues pro and con / Dan W. Brock -- Religious perspectives / National Bioethics Advisory Commission -- To clone or not to clone / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- Human cloning and the public realm: a defense of intuitions of the good / David Tracy -- The Constitution and the clone / Cass R. Sunstein -- On not banning cloning for the wrong reasons / Laurence Tribe -- The demand for human cloning / Eric A. Posner and Richard A. Posner -- A rush to caution: cloning human beings / Richard A. Epstein -- On order / Barbara Katz Rothman -- Recommendations of the Commission / National Bioethics Advisory Commission -- World of strangers / Lisa Tuttle -- Flourish your heart in this world / Felicia Ackerman -- My clone / C.K. Williams -- Little C / Martha C. Nussbaum

"Ranging from psychoanalyst Adam Phillips's case study of a child whose confusion of "cloning" and "clothing" expresses our mixed desire and terror of sameness, to Cass Sunstein's projections of utterly plausible Supreme Court decisions both for and against human cloning; from William Miller's analysis of the queasiness and nervous laughter the subject elicits in many of us to Richard Epstein's libertarian argument against a research ban; from Andrea Dworkin's denunciation of another masculine effort to control reproduction to Martha Nussbaum's witty and elegiac fantasy of the cloning of a lost lover - this collection limns our beliefs and concerns about what it means to be human."--Jacket

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