Cloning in the popular imagination

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 145-149

  Nelkin, Dorothy ^a   Lindee, M Susan ^a  

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR GENETICS; BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CLONING; FANTASY; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; MEDICAL ETHICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC OPINION; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROSLIN INSTITUTE (SCOTLAND); SHEEP; SOCIAL CONTROL;

BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; ROSLIN INSTITUTE (SCOTLAND);

ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION; ANIMALS; CLONING, ORGANISM; ETHICS, MEDICAL; FANTASY; FEMALE; GENETIC DETERMINISM; GENETICS, BEHAVIORAL; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; PUBLIC OPINION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHEEP; SOCIAL CONTROL, FORMAL;

EID: 0032013794     PISSN: 09631801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0963180198702051     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Nelkin D, Lindee MS. The DNA Mystique: The Gene as a Cultural Icon. New York: W.H. Freeman, 1995.
2. Langreth R. Cloning has fascinating, disturbing potential. Wall Street Journal 1997;Feb 24.
3. See, for example, the report on the George Washington University experiment in Dewitt PE. Cloning: where do we draw the line? Time 1993;Nov 8;64-70.
4. Some of the scenarios appeared in a review of the media coverage of human embryo cloning in the Newsletter of the Center for Biotechnology Policy and Ethics of Texas A & M, 1 January 1994.
5. See note 3, Dewitt 1993.
6. For a review of the commercial metaphors in popular magazines see note 1, Nelkin, Lindee 1995:97.
7. Richard Dawkins, quoted in Butler D, Waldman M. Calls for cloning ban sell science short. Nature 1997;386(March 6):9. Dawkins called himself a "closet clone" in an interview with the Evening Standard 1997;Feb. 25.
8. Richard Dawkins, quoted in Butler D, Waldman M. Calls for cloning ban sell science short. Nature 1997;386(March 6):9. Dawkins called himself a "closet clone" in an interview with the Evening Standard 1997;Feb. 25.
9. Robert Coles, quoted in Neibuhr G. Suddenly religious ethicists face a quandary on cloning. New York Times 1997;Mar 1.
10. Reported in the New York Times Magazine 1997;May 25:18.
11. Some of the quips that follow in this paper come from the Oracle Service List on the Internet: oracle-list@synapse.net, 30 April 1997. Others are from the Internet and talk shows; still others from jokes repeated through personal conversations. I have selected them from many jokes and stories repeated in popular sources to suggest the range of concerns and issues raised in popular culture.
12. For a review of religious views, see note 8, Niebuhr 1997.
13. Articles in evangelical magazines such as Christianity Today have regular articles opposing genetic engineering as "tampering with genes." See, for example, Kroll P. The gene healers, The Plain Truth 1990;55:3-8. Pope John Paul II has taken a position on genetic manipulation, arguing that: "All interference in the genome must be done in a way that absolutely respects the specific nature of the human species, the transcendental vocation of every being and his incomparable dignity . . .". Address to the Pontifical Academy of Science, 8 October 1994. Quoted in Family Resource Center News 1996;Winter:1.
14. Articles in evangelical magazines such as Christianity Today have regular articles opposing genetic engineering as "tampering with genes." See, for example, Kroll P. The gene healers, The Plain Truth 1990;55:3-8. Pope John Paul II has taken a position on genetic manipulation, arguing that: "All interference in the genome must be done in a way that absolutely respects the specific nature of the human species, the transcendental vocation of every being and his incomparable dignity . . .". Address to the Pontifical Academy of Science, 8 October 1994. Quoted in Family Resource Center News 1996;Winter:1.
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16. Quoted in New York Times 1997;27 Feb.
17. Dreamtech, http://www.D-B.Net/DT1/Intro2.HTML.
18. Business Week 1997;March 10:cover.
19. It advertises on the Internet at http://www.clonaid.com/.
20. Threatened bans on human cloning research could hamper advances [Medical News and Perspectives] JAMA 1997; 277:1023. Also see statement from a group from the International Academy of Humanism, Defense of cloning and the integrity of scientific research, quoted in Science 1997;276:1341.
21. Threatened bans on human cloning research could hamper advances [Medical News and Perspectives] JAMA 1997; 277:1023. Also see statement from a group from the International Academy of Humanism, Defense of cloning and the integrity of scientific research, quoted in Science 1997;276:1341.
22. Geraghty J. Quoted in Genetic Engineering News 1997;Apr 1:10.
23. Brigid Hogan, Professor in cell biology, quoted in Wadman M. Politicians accused of "shooting from the hip on human cloning." Nature 1997;386:97.