The debate about Dolly

Bioethics

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 427-438

  Klotzko, Arlene Judith ^a  

^a Institute of Medical Ethics   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADVISORY COMMITTEE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL WELFARE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CLONING; EMBRYO RESEARCH; ETHICAL THEORY; ETHICS; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; GOVERNMENT; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EMBRYO RESEARCH PANEL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDUCED ABORTION; LAW; MASS MEDIUM; NATIONAL BIOETHICS ADVISORY COMMISSION; POLICY; POLITICS; PUBLIC OPINION; RELIGION; RESEARCH; SOCIAL CONTROL; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; HUMAN EMBRYO RESEARCH PANEL; NATIONAL BIOETHICS ADVISORY COMMISSION;

ABORTION, INDUCED; ADVISORY COMMITTEES; ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION; ANIMAL WELFARE; ANIMALS; ATTITUDE; CLONING, ORGANISM; EMBRYO RESEARCH; ETHICAL THEORY; ETHICS; FEDERAL GOVERNMENT; FINANCING, GOVERNMENT; GOVERNMENT; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; HUMANS; LEGISLATION; MASS MEDIA; POLITICS; PUBLIC OPINION; PUBLIC POLICY; RELIGION; RESEARCH; SOCIAL CONTROL, FORMAL; STATE GOVERNMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031243281     PISSN: 02699702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8519.00082     Document Type: Review

References (27)

1. Wilmut, I., A.E. Schnieke, J. McWhir, A.J. Kind and K.H.S. Campbell, 'Viable Offspring Derived from Fetal and Adult Mammalian Cells', Nature 385, 810-813 (27 February 1997).
2. Campbell, K.H.S., J. McWhir, W.A. Ritchie, and I. Wilmut, 'Sheep Cloned by Nuclear Transfer from a Cultured Cell Line', Nature 380, 64-66 (7 March 1996).
3. Begley, S., 'Little Lamb Who Made Thee?' Newsweek 56 (March 10, 1997).
4. Kluger, J., 'Will We Follow the Sheep?' Time 71 (March 10, 1997).
5. Annas, G., 'Human Cloning: Should the United States Legislate Against It?' ABA Journal 80 (May, 1997).
6. Kolata, G., 'With the Cloning of a Sheep, the Ethical Ground Shifts' New York Times A1 (February 24, 1997).
7. Duff, N., 'Clone with Caution: Don't Take Playing God Lightly,' Washington Post Cl (March 2, 1997).
8. Callahan, D., 'Bioethics and the Culture Wars,' The Nation 24 (April 14, 1997).
9. Dworkin, R., Life's Dominion: An Argument about Abortion, Euthanasia and Individual Freedom, New York: Knopf, 1993, p. 6.
10. Witham, L., 'Christians Oppose Human Clones', The Washington Times 3 (March 14, 1997).
11. Callahan at 23.
12. Capron, A.M., 'An Egg Takes Flight: The Once and Future Life of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission', Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 7, no. 1, 67 (1997).
13. Capron at 65.
14. Kolata, G., 'Little-Known Panel Challenged To Make Quick Cloning Study', New York Times C9 (March 18, 1997).
15. Radford, T., 'Well, Hello Dolly...', Guardian: 5 (February 27, 1997).
16. The comments of Dr Ian Wilmut, quoted here and elsewhere in this article, were derived from a wide-ranging interview that will be published early next year - as part of a special section on cloning - in the Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics.
17. Congressional Research Service, CRS Report for Congress. 97-335 SPR (March 11, 1997).
18. The Ethics Committee of the American Fertility Society, 'Ethical Considerations of Assisted Reproductive Technologies', 62 Fertility and Sterility Suppl. (November, 1994).
19. McKie, 'But Will There Ever Be Another You?' The Observer 18 (March 2, 1997).
20. Hall, J.L., D. Engel, P.R., Gindoff et al., 'Experimental Cloning of Human Polyploid Embryos Using An Artificial Zona Pellucida', The American Fertility Society conjointly with the Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society, Program Supplement, Abstracts of the Scientific Oral and Poster Sessions, Abstract 0-001, S1 (1993).
21. See note 17.
22. 'What Research? Which Embryos?' Hastings Center Report 25, no. 1 (1995) 36.
23. Klotzko, A.J., 'The Regulation of Embryo Research under the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act of 1990,' in D. Evans (ed). Conceiving the Embryo, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1996, 303-314.
24. Callahan at 23.
25. Palca, J., 'A New National Bioethics Commission - Maybe', Hastings Center Report, 26 no. 1 (January-February 1996): 5.
26. See note 14.
27. I am grateful to the following persons for their varying contributions to this article: Dr Kenneth Boyd; Mrs Patricia Boyd; Dr Tony Hope; Ms. Susan Joffe; Ms. Rachel McWilliams; Ms. Laurie Petrick; Dr Zbigniew Szawarski; Dr Ian Wilmut, the members of his research team, and his personal assistant, Ms. Jaki Young. And my special thanks to Ms. Elizabeth Graham, Senior Information Officer, The Wellcome Centre for Medical Science, for her indefatigable research support and unfailing good humor.