After Dolly The Promise and Perils of Cloning

Name: After Dolly The Promise and Perils of Cloning
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ISBN: 9780393330267

ISBN-10: 0393330265

ISBN-13: 9780393330267

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Authors: Ian Wilmut, Roger Highfield

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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 Dollythat 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…

Book details

List price: $23.95
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/17/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 338
Size: 5.39" wide x 8.19" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Roger Highfield is science editor of The Daily Telegraph and a regular broadcaster on the BBC. He lives in London.



Introduction



Cloning the Cloner



A Brief History of Cloning



Dollymania



Farmyard Clones



Cloning for My Father



Is a Blastocyst a Person?



Why We Should Not Clone Babies



Designer Babies



Beyond Human Cloning


Source Notes


Glossary


Acknowledgments


Index