Cloning, killing, and identity

Journal of Medical Ethics

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 77-86

  McMahan, Jeff ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloning; Ethics; Fetus; Identity; Killing

Indexed keywords

GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN CLONING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; REVIEW;

EID: 0032922478     PISSN: 03066800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jme.25.2.77     Document Type: Review

References (8)

1. McMahan J. Killing at the margins of life. New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming: ch 1.
2. Kuhse H, Singer P. Individuals, humans and persons. In: Singer P et al, eds. Embryo experimentation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990: 67.
3. The following remarks parallel one of Derek Parfit's arguments for a reductionist view of persons. See Parfit P. Reasons and persons. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984:211-12.
4. Miller K. Together forever. Life 1996 Apr: 44-56.
5. Schechtman M. The constitution of selves. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996:52.
6. See reference 3:ch 12.
7. See McMahan J. Killing and equality. Utilitas 1995;7:1-29.
8. This article was stimulated by my reading a provocative unpublished paper by Julian Savulescu. The article also draws heavily on ideas developed in more detail in Killing at the margins of life: see reference 1.