Ethical Issues in Animal Cloning

Ethical issues in animal cloning.

The issue of human reproductive cloning has recently received a great deal attention in public discourse. Bioethicists, policy makers, and the media have been quick to identify the key ethical issues involved in human reproductive cloning and to argue, almost unanimously, for an international ban on such attempts. Meanwhile, scientists have proceeded with extensive research agendas in the cloni...

Ethical and policy issues of human cloning.

The idea that humans might someday be cloned from a single adult somatic cell without sexual reproduction moved further away from science fiction and closer to a genuine possibility when scientists at the Roslin Institute in Scotland announced the successful cloning of a sheep (1) by a new technique that had never before been fully successful in mammals. The technique involved transplanting the...

Human Cloning: Religious and Ethical Issues

ETHICAL ISSUES IN MEDICAL STATISTICS

Medical statistics (biostatistics), as a vital essential part of modem life, does raise some fundamental ethical issues. Surprisingly, this aspect seems to have been totally ignored by books on medical ethics. This paper discusses how the statistical aspects affect the ethics. The relation between biostatistics and medical research is explored. All stages of a medical research exercise are ...

Ethical Issues in Stem Cell Transplantation

There is great interest worldwide in discovering and developing a permanent source of tissues which would be capable of generating any cell type and which would avoid the problem of transplant rejection. Stem cells are cells that can specialize into the many different cells found in the human body. The ethical objections concerning stem cells have focused primarily on their source. Human embry...