Book: Creating Unique Copies
Human Reproductive Cloning, Uniqueness, and Dignity
2023
Abstract: Human reproductive cloning aims to produce duplicates, i.e., people who are phenotypically and genetically identical to those already in existence. This might appear to actually threaten human dignity, because it calls into question our much-vaunted, ... ...
Author's details | Dr. Evangelos D. Protopapadakis is Assistant Professor in Applied Ethics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He is also the Director of the NKUA Applied Philosophy Research Laboratory and the Head of the Greek Unit of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics (Haifa) |
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Abstract | Human reproductive cloning aims to produce duplicates, i.e., people who are phenotypically and genetically identical to those already in existence. This might appear to actually threaten human dignity, because it calls into question our much-vaunted, precious uniqueness. This is precisely what this book sets out to explore: Whether, in what sense, and to what extent human reproductive cloning can threaten human uniqueness and dignity, particularly by either promoting or violating certain huma... |
Keywords | human reproductive cloning ; uniqueness ; dignity ; bioethics ; technological advances |
Language | English |
Size | 260 p. |
Publisher | Logos Verlag Berlin |
Document type | Book |
Note | PDA Manuell_23 |
Format | 210 x 297 |
ISBN | 9783832556983 ; 3832556982 |
Database | PDA |
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