Ethics and law in biological research / edited by Cosimo Marco Mazzoni.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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"This is a collection of essays reflecting a considerable range of different cultural experiences and different ethical underpinnings. The main subject is cloning. Cloning is the most accessible and most readily perceived point of convergence from which ethical judgements on the current developments of scientific investigations can be proposed. Cloning is also the "paradox" on which the confrontation between scientific research and popular imagination is focused."--Jacket.

Ethics and Law in Biological Research / Cosimo Marco Mazzoni -- Human Genome Technology from the Viewpoint of Efficiency and Justice / Peter Koller -- The Human Genome Project and the Geneticists' Responsibility / Alberto Piazza -- Human Dignity as a Regulative Instrument for Human Genome Research / Jurgen Simon -- Bioethical Anxieties Concerning the Limits of Biological Research / Mauro Barni -- The Perception of Possible Knowledge and Changes in Common Morality / Carlo Flamigni -- Information and Decision / Eligio Resta -- Biomedical Law: The Aims and Limits of Regulating Biomedical Science and Technology / Amos Shapira -- The Epistemic State -- The Legal Regulation of Science / Mariachiara Tallacchini -- Some Fundamental Evils in Generating Human Embryos by Cloning / John Finnis -- Thinking About Huxley's Brave New World: Was it Wrong to Create a Genetic Hierarchical Society? Is it Wrong to Prevent One? / Bernard Gert -- From Random Procreation to Standardized Reproduction / Jacques Testart -- The Problem of Reproductive Cloning / Francesco D. Busnelli -- The Point of View of a Medical Geneticist on Human Cloning / Bruno Dallapiccola -- The Mystery of the Scantiness of Arguments Against Cloning / Luigi Lombardi Vallauri -- Making the Right Use of Law: The Cloning Dilemma / Stefano Rodota -- The Right to Genetic Disobedience: The Iceland Case / Amedeo Santosuosso -- Medicine as Science and Art: Anxieties at the Dawn of the Third Millennium / Paolo T. Scarpelli -- Clones and Golems / Carmel Shalev -- Doppelganger Temptations / Adriana Cavarero -- After Dolly: New Forms of Genetics Capital / Sarah Franklin -- Cloning and Balanced Ethics / John Harris -- The Future of Clones / Mario Jori -- Cloning: Taboo Subject for Public Debate in France / Dominique Mehl -- Nude Pigs and Headless Clones / James Reston, Jr. -- Dolly and deja vu: Facts and Fiction about Human Cloning / Jon Turney.

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