Someday soon (if it hasn't happened in secret already), a human will be cloned, and mankind will embark on a scientific and moral journey whose destination cannot be foretold.
In A Clone of Your Own?, Arlene Judith Klotzko describes the new world of possibilities that can be glimpsed over the horizon. In a lucid and engaging narrative, she explains that the technology to create clones of living beings already exists, inaugurated in 1996 by Dolly the sheep, the first mammal cloned from a single adult cell. Our fascination with cloning is about much more than science and its extraordinary medical implications. In riveting prose, full of illusions to art, music, and the cinema, Klotzko shows why the prospect of human cloning triggers our dearest hopes and especially our darkest fears, forcing us to ponder anew what it means to be human, and what it would be like to have 'a clone of your own'.
Table of contents
1. Power without Responsibilty? Creating Life in the Laboratory; 2. Reversal of Fortune: The Science of Cloning; 3. Animal Farm: Cloning Applications; 4. Building Your Own Body Repair Kit: Colning for Cell Therapies; 5. A Chip off the Old Block: Cloning for Human Reproduction; 6. Double Trouble: The Fragility of Identity
