Cloning and human dignity

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 163-167

  Harris, John ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLONING; FEMALE; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDIVIDUALITY; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL GENETICS; MORALITY; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PHILOSOPHY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELIGION; RISK ASSESSMENT;

GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALS; CLONING, ORGANISM; ETHICS, MEDICAL; EUGENICS; FEMALE; HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MORAL OBLIGATIONS; MORALS; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PHILOSOPHY, MEDICAL; RELIGION AND MEDICINE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0032015082     PISSN: 09631801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0963180198702087     Document Type: Article

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1. For a more comprehensive account of the ethics of human cloning generally see Harris J. Goodbye Dolly? the ethics of human cloning. Journal of Medical Ethics 1997;23(6).
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10. David Hume in his A Treatise of Human Nature 1738. Contemporary philosophers who have flirted with a similar approach include Stuart Hampshire; see, for example, Hampshire S. Morality & Pessimism: The Leslie Stephen Lecture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972; and Bernard Williams in Against utilitarianism. In Williams B, Smart JCC. Utilitarianism For and Against. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973. 1 first discussed the pitfalls of olfactory moral philosophy in my Violence and Responsibility. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980.
11. David Hume in his A Treatise of Human Nature 1738. Contemporary philosophers who have flirted with a similar approach include Stuart Hampshire; see, for example, Hampshire S. Morality & Pessimism: The Leslie Stephen Lecture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972; and Bernard Williams in Against utilitarianism. In Williams B, Smart JCC. Utilitarianism For and Against. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973. 1 first discussed the pitfalls of olfactory moral philosophy in my Violence and Responsibility. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980.
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13. Kass LR. The wisdom of repugnance. The New Republic 1997;Jun 2:17-26. The obvious erudition of his writing leads to expectations that he might have found feelings prompted by more promising parts of his anatomy with which to entertain us.
14. Orwell G. Letter to Humphrey House (11 April 1940). The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, vol.1. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1970:583. See my more detailed discussion of the problems with this type of reasoning in Harris J. Wonderwoman & Superman: The Ethics of Human Biotechnology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.
15. Orwell G. Letter to Humphrey House (11 April 1940). The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, vol.1. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1970:583. See my more detailed discussion of the problems with this type of reasoning in Harris J. Wonderwoman & Superman: The Ethics of Human Biotechnology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.