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Animal Cloning: Scientific Endeavour, Perception and Ethical Debate
In 1996, a single lamb born (Dolly) from an experiment involving 277 embryo reconstructions that developed into 29 early in vitro embryos that were...
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Posthuman Affirmative Business Ethics: Reimagining Human–Animal Relations Through Speculative Fiction
Posthuman affirmative ethics relies upon a fluid, nomadic conception of the ethical subject who develops affective, material and immaterial...
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Breaking Through Animalities
This chapter is the second episode of a three-part essay that explores the concept of the animal as an ontological question. The chapter discusses...
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Of Mice-Rats and Pig-Men: Ethical Issues in the Development of Human/Nonhuman Chimeras
The modern biological definition of a chimera is a single organism composed of cells with multiple distinct genotypes. Chimeras combining human and...
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VIII: Postlude: Specific Questions at the Margins of Human Life
As a postlude, this chapter addresses several rather specific and technical questions and concerns that are sometimes levelled against the definition...
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An operational definition of biological development
Despite the undeniable epistemic progress of developmental biology from the second half of the twentieth century to the present day, there still is...
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New Bodies, New Identities? The Negotiation of Cloning Technologies in Young Adult Fiction
This essay examines the fantasy of life extension enabled through the transfer of one’s consciousness to new, cloned bodies in the event of disease,...
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The Historical Process and Challenges of Medical Ethics Codes in China
Chinese medical ethics have become standardized in recent years, transforming from focusing on individual, famous physicians’ concepts of medical...
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Manipulated Evolution and Artificial Life
Since the 1970s, laboratory methods have been developed in molecular biology that allow for the manipulation of the DNA sequences of genes or the...
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Clone
The word “clone” derives etymologically from the Greek klon (vegetable bud) and was first coined in 1903 by the plant physiologist Herbert J. Webber...
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Embryo Research Ethics
Robert George and Christopher Tollefsen argue that human beings have fundamental dignity and basic rights (“human rights”) in virtue of the kind of...
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Research with Human Biological Samples: Systematization of the Phases and Affected Rights
The legal nature of human biological samples is complex, which implies that their collection, storage, use and transfer for research purposes affect...
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Potentiality switches and epistemic uncertainty: the Argument from Potential in times of human embryo-like structures
Recent advancements in developmental biology enable the creation of embryo-like structures from human stem cells, which we refer to as human...
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Human Cloning: Stereotypes, Public Policy, and the Law
Human cloning will not generate human copies or prematurely aged babies. Rather, it will help infertile, gay, and lesbian couples have ordinary...
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Can Friends be Copied? Ethical Aspects of Cloning Dogs as Companion Animals
Since the first successful attempt to clone a dog in 2005, dogs have been cloned by Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer (SCNT) for a variety of purposes....
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Chapter 10 Reproductive and Therapeutic Cloning
Cloning has become a hotly disputed topic across the world. Reproductive cloning is universally condemned (see: UNESCO 1997, art. 11 sent. 1 ;...
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Genetic Engineering
In this chapter I will apply the PP to ethical and policy issues related to genetic engineering of microbes, plants, animals, and human beings. I...
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Introduction: The Philosophical Riddle of Death, from a Biological Point of View
This chapter presents the general philosophical problem of biological death, puts it in perspective with traditional meditations on death in Western...
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Chapter III: Culture
The third chapter deals with the cultural environment of humanity. It exposes its nature and stresses its fundamental historicity. It elaborates...
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The inviolateness of life and equal protection: a defense of the dead-donor rule
There are increasing calls to reject the dead-donor rule and permit organ donation euthanasia in organ transplantation. I argue that the fundamental...