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To sum it up, there is a lot of ethical and scientific discussions to go on, is it ethically wrong as there will be many wasted embryos, religious experts say that we have no right to act as god, another Hitler may clone the master race and take over the world. There is also the fact that if people are cloned, and there is a way of reversing the aging process that overcrowding will become a worldwide problem, introducing more diseases, or reintroducing diseases such as cholera. On the other hand, there is many plus points as well, the saving of rare animals such as tigers from extinction, the curing of many illnesses, a better standard of life for people at the least. There is also the chance of cloning yourself so that you don’t have to go into work every day, and can spend more time at home with family and friends.
(for info on the above picture see 11) It is because of these facts that I am interested in cloning, and believe that although cloning may have detrimental effects, there is at least some room for researching into the subject before people start to ban it altogether.
Acknowledgments:
During this essay I used information for textbooks, journals and the Internet, all of the sources are listed below, along with a breakdown of the citations used in the essay itself.
I would like to especially thank the people of the Human Cloning Foundation, whose web site at www.humancloning.org was very helpful, and produced many helpful links.
the following texts were used in the essay:
1) Who’s Afraid of Human Cloning? by Gregory Pence
published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Inc. Lanham Maryland, 1998
2) Molecular Biology in Reproductive Medicine, Edited by: B.C.J.M Fauser
with help from: A.J. Rutherford, J.F. Strauss, A. Van Steirteghem
published by The Parthenon Publishing Group, New York & London, 1999
(this book was used as reading material, but no direct information was used in the essay).
The following journal was used in the essay:
The New England Journal of Medicine, March 26, 1998, Vol 228, no. 13 pp 905-906
“Should Human Cloning Research be Off Limits” by Jerome P. Kassirer, M.D. and Nadia A. Rosenthal, Ph.D.
The following web pages were referenced:
1) http://www.humancloning.org/htm
2) “internet http://www.humancloning.org/benefits.htm, 1998”
3) http://www.humancloning.org/josegraphics3.htm
4) http://www.humancloning.org/pic-lamb.htm
Also used are the following essay:
Mill Hill Essays 1997, National Institute for Medical Research,
Cloning by Rosa Beddington which was found at the web page
http://www.nimr.mrc.ac.uk/mhe97/cloning.htm.
The citations used in the essay are as follows:
1) information taken from Who’s afraid of human cloning? page 9
2) information taken from Who’s afraid of human cloning? page 11
3) information taken from Who’s afraid of human cloning? page 12
4) information taken from the essay by Rosa Beddington
5) information taken from the webpage no. 2 bullet point no 4
6) information taken from the New England Journal article paragraph 5
7) information taken from the New England Journal article paragraph 3
8) information taken from the webpage no. 2 bullet point no 3
9) information taken from the webpage no. 2 bullet point no 13
10) the picture of the sheep was taken from webpage no. 4 above, but is NOT a picture of Dolly
11) the picture of the Tigers was taken from webpage no. 3 above, by Jose f. Jaramillo
Barry Evans (97090273) October 21, 1999
Barry is a 19 yr. old 3rd Year Biomedical Science student at Aberdeen University in Scotland.
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