Ethical issues in human cloning

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 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 Issues in Human Enhancement

Human enhancement has emerged in recent years as a blossoming topic in applied ethics. With continuing advances in science and technology, people are beginning to realize that some of the basic parameters of the human condition might be changed in the future. One important way in which the human condition could be changed is through the enhancement of basic human capacities. If this becomes fea...

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 ...