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Ethics and Law in Biological Research / / edited by Cosimo Marco Mazzoni
| Ethics and Law in Biological Research / / edited by Cosimo Marco Mazzoni |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden; ; Boston : , : Brill | Nijhoff, , 2002 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (273 p.) |
| Disciplina | 174/.957 |
| Collana | Nijhoff Law Specials |
| Soggetto topico |
Bioethics
Cloning - Moral and ethical aspects Medical ethics |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-280-46805-X
9786610468058 1-4175-5148-8 90-474-0306-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | I. The Limits of Science and Biological Investigation / C.M. Mazzoni. -- II. Cloning: Biological and Moral Aspects J. Finnis, et al. -- III. Cloning in Popular Imagination A. Cavarero, et al. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910450149203321 |
| Leiden; ; Boston : , : Brill | Nijhoff, , 2002 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Ethics and Law in Biological Research / / edited by Cosimo Marco Mazzoni
| Ethics and Law in Biological Research / / edited by Cosimo Marco Mazzoni |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden; ; Boston : , : Brill | Nijhoff, , 2002 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (273 p.) |
| Disciplina | 174/.957 |
| Collana | Nijhoff Law Specials |
| Soggetto topico |
Bioethics
Cloning - Moral and ethical aspects Medical ethics |
| ISBN |
1-280-46805-X
9786610468058 1-4175-5148-8 90-474-0306-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | I. The Limits of Science and Biological Investigation / C.M. Mazzoni. -- II. Cloning: Biological and Moral Aspects J. Finnis, et al. -- III. Cloning in Popular Imagination A. Cavarero, et al. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783600703321 |
| Leiden; ; Boston : , : Brill | Nijhoff, , 2002 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Ethics and law in biological research / / edited by Cosimo Marco Mazzoni
| Ethics and law in biological research / / edited by Cosimo Marco Mazzoni |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boston, : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (273 p.) |
| Disciplina | 174/.957 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | MazzoniCosimo Marco |
| Collana | Nijhoff law specials |
| Soggetto topico |
Cloning - Moral and ethical aspects
Bioethics Medical ethics |
| ISBN |
1-280-46805-X
9786610468058 1-4175-5148-8 90-474-0306-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | I. The Limits of Science and Biological Investigation / C.M. Mazzoni. -- II. Cloning: Biological and Moral Aspects J. Finnis, et al. -- III. Cloning in Popular Imagination A. Cavarero, et al. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910827397603321 |
| Boston, : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Human dignity and human cloning / / edited by Silja Vöneky, Rüdiger Wolfrum
| Human dignity and human cloning / / edited by Silja Vöneky, Rüdiger Wolfrum |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2004.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden, Netherlands : , : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, , [2004] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxi, 319 pages) |
| Disciplina | 176 |
| Soggetto topico |
Human genetics - Religious aspects - Christianity
Cloning - Religious aspects - Christianity Human genetics - Moral and ethical aspects Cloning - Moral and ethical aspects |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
94-017-6174-4
1-280-86752-3 9786610867523 1-4294-5264-1 90-474-0687-7 1-4337-0576-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Preface (Silja Vöneky/Rüdiger Wolfrum); List of Contributors; List of Abbreviations; 1. The Creation and the Dignity of Man in Islam (Reza Sheikholeslami); 2. The Pali Buddhist Approach to Human Cloning (Andrew Huxley); 3. Some Aspects of the Buddhist Assessment of Human Cloning (Jens Schlieter); 4. The Jewish Perspective on Cloning (Manfred Oeming); 5. Christianity and Western Philosophy (Robert Spaemann); 6. Human Cloning from a Scientific Perspective (Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker); 7. The Human Embryo is a Person and not an Object (Christian Starck)
8. Does the German Basic Law Protect against Human Cloning? (Jörn Ipsen)9. Does Cloning Violate the Basic Law's Guarantee of Human Dignity? (Horst Dreier); 10. Back to Kant! An Interjection in the Debate on Cloning and Human Dignity (Wolfgang Graf Vitzthum); 11. From Procreation to Generation? Constitutional and Legal-Political Issues in Bioethics (Brigitte Zypries); 12. International Legal Limits to Human Cloning (Hans Lilie); 13. Who Is Protected by Human Rights Conventions? Protection of the Embryo vs. Scientific Freedom and Public Health (Rüdiger Wolfrum/Silja Vöneky) 14. The Negotiations on a Treaty on Cloning: Some Reflections (Mahnoush H. Arsanjani)15. A Convention on Cloning - Annotations to an almost Unsolvable Dilemma (Spiros Simitis); Annex Relevant International and National Documents; I. International Convention against the (Reproductive) Cloning of Human Beings; II. Other International Resolutions and Declarations; III. Council of Europe; IV. European Union; V. German Law |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451023503321 |
| Leiden, Netherlands : , : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, , [2004] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Human dignity and human cloning / / edited by Silja Vöneky, Rüdiger Wolfrum
| Human dignity and human cloning / / edited by Silja Vöneky, Rüdiger Wolfrum |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2004.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden, Netherlands : , : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, , [2004] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxi, 319 pages) |
| Disciplina | 176 |
| Soggetto topico |
Human genetics - Religious aspects - Christianity
Cloning - Religious aspects - Christianity Human genetics - Moral and ethical aspects Cloning - Moral and ethical aspects |
| ISBN |
94-017-6174-4
1-280-86752-3 9786610867523 1-4294-5264-1 90-474-0687-7 1-4337-0576-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Preface (Silja Vöneky/Rüdiger Wolfrum); List of Contributors; List of Abbreviations; 1. The Creation and the Dignity of Man in Islam (Reza Sheikholeslami); 2. The Pali Buddhist Approach to Human Cloning (Andrew Huxley); 3. Some Aspects of the Buddhist Assessment of Human Cloning (Jens Schlieter); 4. The Jewish Perspective on Cloning (Manfred Oeming); 5. Christianity and Western Philosophy (Robert Spaemann); 6. Human Cloning from a Scientific Perspective (Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker); 7. The Human Embryo is a Person and not an Object (Christian Starck)
8. Does the German Basic Law Protect against Human Cloning? (Jörn Ipsen)9. Does Cloning Violate the Basic Law's Guarantee of Human Dignity? (Horst Dreier); 10. Back to Kant! An Interjection in the Debate on Cloning and Human Dignity (Wolfgang Graf Vitzthum); 11. From Procreation to Generation? Constitutional and Legal-Political Issues in Bioethics (Brigitte Zypries); 12. International Legal Limits to Human Cloning (Hans Lilie); 13. Who Is Protected by Human Rights Conventions? Protection of the Embryo vs. Scientific Freedom and Public Health (Rüdiger Wolfrum/Silja Vöneky) 14. The Negotiations on a Treaty on Cloning: Some Reflections (Mahnoush H. Arsanjani)15. A Convention on Cloning - Annotations to an almost Unsolvable Dilemma (Spiros Simitis); Annex Relevant International and National Documents; I. International Convention against the (Reproductive) Cloning of Human Beings; II. Other International Resolutions and Declarations; III. Council of Europe; IV. European Union; V. German Law |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784185503321 |
| Leiden, Netherlands : , : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, , [2004] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Human dignity and human cloning / / edited by Silja Voneky and Rudiger Wolfrum
| Human dignity and human cloning / / edited by Silja Voneky and Rudiger Wolfrum |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2004.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden, : Nijhoff |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxi, 319 pages) |
| Disciplina | 176 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
VonekySilja
WolfrumRudiger |
| Soggetto topico |
Cloning - Religious aspects - Christianity
Cloning - Moral and ethical aspects Human genetics - Religious aspects - Christianity Human genetics - Moral and ethical aspects |
| ISBN |
94-017-6174-4
1-280-86752-3 9786610867523 1-4294-5264-1 90-474-0687-7 1-4337-0576-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Preface (Silja Vöneky/Rüdiger Wolfrum); List of Contributors; List of Abbreviations; 1. The Creation and the Dignity of Man in Islam (Reza Sheikholeslami); 2. The Pali Buddhist Approach to Human Cloning (Andrew Huxley); 3. Some Aspects of the Buddhist Assessment of Human Cloning (Jens Schlieter); 4. The Jewish Perspective on Cloning (Manfred Oeming); 5. Christianity and Western Philosophy (Robert Spaemann); 6. Human Cloning from a Scientific Perspective (Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker); 7. The Human Embryo is a Person and not an Object (Christian Starck)
8. Does the German Basic Law Protect against Human Cloning? (Jörn Ipsen)9. Does Cloning Violate the Basic Law's Guarantee of Human Dignity? (Horst Dreier); 10. Back to Kant! An Interjection in the Debate on Cloning and Human Dignity (Wolfgang Graf Vitzthum); 11. From Procreation to Generation? Constitutional and Legal-Political Issues in Bioethics (Brigitte Zypries); 12. International Legal Limits to Human Cloning (Hans Lilie); 13. Who Is Protected by Human Rights Conventions? Protection of the Embryo vs. Scientific Freedom and Public Health (Rüdiger Wolfrum/Silja Vöneky) 14. The Negotiations on a Treaty on Cloning: Some Reflections (Mahnoush H. Arsanjani)15. A Convention on Cloning - Annotations to an almost Unsolvable Dilemma (Spiros Simitis); Annex Relevant International and National Documents; I. International Convention against the (Reproductive) Cloning of Human Beings; II. Other International Resolutions and Declarations; III. Council of Europe; IV. European Union; V. German Law |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910827902403321 |
| Leiden, : Nijhoff | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Multiplicity yours [[electronic resource] ] : cloning, stem cell research, and regenerative medicine / / Hwa A. Lim
| Multiplicity yours [[electronic resource] ] : cloning, stem cell research, and regenerative medicine / / Hwa A. Lim |
| Autore | Lim Hwa A |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Singapore ; ; Hackensack, NJ, : World Scientific, c2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxvii, 412 p. ) : ill. (some col.) |
| Disciplina | 176 |
| Soggetto topico |
Cloning
Cloning - Moral and ethical aspects Stem cells - Research Reproduction Genomics |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-281-37319-2
9786611373191 981-277-317-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Prologue. About the title of the book. Risks of writing this book. The title revisited. What has gravity got to do with this book? One-handed scientist. Information cornucopia. Will the Y chromosome decay and take men with it? A goal of this book. Inside this book. Best use of this book -- 2. A primer on genetics. Living things. Tinkering using technology. Survival of the fittest. How genetics changed the course of history. Timeline of genetics -- 3. Sex, a primal instinct. The primal instinct for sex. Emperor penguins. Salmons. Pacific grunions. Other aspects of sex. Sex reigns, birds and bees do it, but why? Models of co-evolution. The deleterious mutation hypothesis. The Red Queen hypothesis. Computer simulations. Supporting evidence. Scandal without sex. Selfish genes. Selfishly altruistic kin selection -- 4. Mating dance. Basic instinct. Scents of love. Cupid's chemicals. Mating dance. Of man and ape. Sexual matrimony and polyamory. And less love. Tug of war, In Utero. Back into the past and future -- 5. Quest for perfection. Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. Ancient definition of perfection. Search for the perfect face. Search for hour-glass figure. The myth of beauty. The cute factor. No choice for baby. Selective paternal reproduction. The founding of Rome. Selective maternal reproduction. Eugenics. First stage. Second stage. Third stage. Fourth stage -- 6. Invisible hand in the human body shop. The human life cycle. The reproductive cycle. Sex hormones. Inside the womb. Birth defects. The invisible hand in human body commerce. From alchemy to algeny. In vitro fertilization. IVF the Aussie style. The business of in vitro fertilization. IVF children. Donor insemination. DI half-siblings. Hello Dolly, good-bye Dolly -- 7. Clonology. Parthenogenesis, virgin birth. Cloning. Clonology. Cloning Hollywood style. The celebrated Dolly, but second to computer chips. Clones of clones of a clone. Jerky bulls and Yang cows. Second chance, clone of the oldest bull. Artificial monkey twins. Clone of a clone - more bulls. Cloned piglets. Reversing aging. Other notable cloning efforts. Jurassic amusement park? More calves and piglets. More endangered species cloned. Multi-legged bio-x. Multi-legged bio-reactors. Multi-legged bio-facturers. Nature versus nano. Multi-legged bio-models. Multi-legged bio-factories -- 8. Petory and biofactory. PerPETually yours. K-9 cloning. Snuppy. Dupli-cat. Cc: genetic anomaly. Commercial grade pet cloning. Cloning rabbitly. A stubborn clone. Cloned equine twin of surrogate mother. Ethically yours. Odd-inarily yours -- 9. Cloning techniques. Twins, twice the fun. Nonidentical twins - siblings of the same age. Identical twins - natural clones. Mirror image and conjoined twins. Interest in twins. Identical twins are more identical than clones. En route to commercialization. Artificial twinning technique. Nuclear transfer technique. The Roslin technique. The Honolulu technique. The chromatin transfer technique. Twinning Roslin in Honolulu. Honolulu versus Dolly. First male clone -- 10. Reproductive human cloning. Super clones? Tinkering with conception. Natural birth versus cloning. Hardware and software of sexual reproduction. Hardware and software of cloning. Physiology of human cloning. Key human cloning mavericks. Richard Seed. Claude Vorilhon and Brigitte Boisselier. Severino Antinori. Panayiotis Zavos. Avi Ben-Abraham. Human embryo "clones". Clone abortion. Why hybrid? The "clone" stork, real or Rael? -- 11. The alchemy of stem cells. Organ transplant. Growing human organs? Stem cell. Derivation of stem cells. Banking embryonic and fetal parts. Lifeline - cord blood. Multipotent adult stem cells. Stem cells from fat. Medical uses of stem cells. Stem cell gold mines. Growing breast from a stem cell. Regenerative medicine. Why regenerative medicine? Regenerative medicine and stem cell research. Regeneration, stem cells and aging. Master cells and master genes -- 12. Stem cell entities. Stem cell nations. Sweden. United Kingdom. Australia. Singapore. Israel. Japan. India. China. Korea. United States. Case study: Harvard Stem Cell Institute. Case study: California Institute of Regenerative Medicine. East versus West. A shenanigans of scandalous proportion. The rise to international stardom. The fall from grace. The repercussions. How did it happen? The way to the top. The way to demise. The bits and pieces. The characters: accomplices and foes. Hwang versus Raelians. Synopsis of the dogged reports -- 13. Legal and ethical issues. How? What? Why? Therapeutic and reproductive cloning. Secret projects. Stigma of cloning. Ten AD (after Dolly). Cloning as an assisted reproductive technology. All is fine unless you are the clone. Where science meets the public. Issues with human cloning. Cloning as reprotech. Ethical issues with cloning. My father is my twin. Can a clone run for U.S. Presidency? The genie is out of the bottle. In vitro fertilization debate. Reproductive cloning d�e j�avu. Overcoming legal and ethical impasse. Private funding. Model organisms. Vertebrates. Invertebrates. Plants. Microorganisms. Circumventing ethical impasse. Message in a bottle from the future. To clone or not to clone? Why? Why not! Clone the law -- 14. At the crossroad. Relatively and genetically speaking. Divinity versus greed. The invisible hand. Fictitious commodities. Tapping into human resources. Mendel and Darwin. The invisible body. Sexual reproduction versus cloning -- Excellent references -- Food for thoughts. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451170803321 |
Lim Hwa A
|
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| Singapore ; ; Hackensack, NJ, : World Scientific, c2006 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Multiplicity yours [[electronic resource] ] : cloning, stem cell research, and regenerative medicine / / Hwa A. Lim
| Multiplicity yours [[electronic resource] ] : cloning, stem cell research, and regenerative medicine / / Hwa A. Lim |
| Autore | Lim Hwa A |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Singapore ; ; Hackensack, NJ, : World Scientific, c2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxvii, 412 p. ) : ill. (some col.) |
| Disciplina | 176 |
| Soggetto topico |
Cloning
Cloning - Moral and ethical aspects Stem cells - Research Reproduction Genomics |
| ISBN |
1-281-37319-2
9786611373191 981-277-317-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Prologue. About the title of the book. Risks of writing this book. The title revisited. What has gravity got to do with this book? One-handed scientist. Information cornucopia. Will the Y chromosome decay and take men with it? A goal of this book. Inside this book. Best use of this book -- 2. A primer on genetics. Living things. Tinkering using technology. Survival of the fittest. How genetics changed the course of history. Timeline of genetics -- 3. Sex, a primal instinct. The primal instinct for sex. Emperor penguins. Salmons. Pacific grunions. Other aspects of sex. Sex reigns, birds and bees do it, but why? Models of co-evolution. The deleterious mutation hypothesis. The Red Queen hypothesis. Computer simulations. Supporting evidence. Scandal without sex. Selfish genes. Selfishly altruistic kin selection -- 4. Mating dance. Basic instinct. Scents of love. Cupid's chemicals. Mating dance. Of man and ape. Sexual matrimony and polyamory. And less love. Tug of war, In Utero. Back into the past and future -- 5. Quest for perfection. Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. Ancient definition of perfection. Search for the perfect face. Search for hour-glass figure. The myth of beauty. The cute factor. No choice for baby. Selective paternal reproduction. The founding of Rome. Selective maternal reproduction. Eugenics. First stage. Second stage. Third stage. Fourth stage -- 6. Invisible hand in the human body shop. The human life cycle. The reproductive cycle. Sex hormones. Inside the womb. Birth defects. The invisible hand in human body commerce. From alchemy to algeny. In vitro fertilization. IVF the Aussie style. The business of in vitro fertilization. IVF children. Donor insemination. DI half-siblings. Hello Dolly, good-bye Dolly -- 7. Clonology. Parthenogenesis, virgin birth. Cloning. Clonology. Cloning Hollywood style. The celebrated Dolly, but second to computer chips. Clones of clones of a clone. Jerky bulls and Yang cows. Second chance, clone of the oldest bull. Artificial monkey twins. Clone of a clone - more bulls. Cloned piglets. Reversing aging. Other notable cloning efforts. Jurassic amusement park? More calves and piglets. More endangered species cloned. Multi-legged bio-x. Multi-legged bio-reactors. Multi-legged bio-facturers. Nature versus nano. Multi-legged bio-models. Multi-legged bio-factories -- 8. Petory and biofactory. PerPETually yours. K-9 cloning. Snuppy. Dupli-cat. Cc: genetic anomaly. Commercial grade pet cloning. Cloning rabbitly. A stubborn clone. Cloned equine twin of surrogate mother. Ethically yours. Odd-inarily yours -- 9. Cloning techniques. Twins, twice the fun. Nonidentical twins - siblings of the same age. Identical twins - natural clones. Mirror image and conjoined twins. Interest in twins. Identical twins are more identical than clones. En route to commercialization. Artificial twinning technique. Nuclear transfer technique. The Roslin technique. The Honolulu technique. The chromatin transfer technique. Twinning Roslin in Honolulu. Honolulu versus Dolly. First male clone -- 10. Reproductive human cloning. Super clones? Tinkering with conception. Natural birth versus cloning. Hardware and software of sexual reproduction. Hardware and software of cloning. Physiology of human cloning. Key human cloning mavericks. Richard Seed. Claude Vorilhon and Brigitte Boisselier. Severino Antinori. Panayiotis Zavos. Avi Ben-Abraham. Human embryo "clones". Clone abortion. Why hybrid? The "clone" stork, real or Rael? -- 11. The alchemy of stem cells. Organ transplant. Growing human organs? Stem cell. Derivation of stem cells. Banking embryonic and fetal parts. Lifeline - cord blood. Multipotent adult stem cells. Stem cells from fat. Medical uses of stem cells. Stem cell gold mines. Growing breast from a stem cell. Regenerative medicine. Why regenerative medicine? Regenerative medicine and stem cell research. Regeneration, stem cells and aging. Master cells and master genes -- 12. Stem cell entities. Stem cell nations. Sweden. United Kingdom. Australia. Singapore. Israel. Japan. India. China. Korea. United States. Case study: Harvard Stem Cell Institute. Case study: California Institute of Regenerative Medicine. East versus West. A shenanigans of scandalous proportion. The rise to international stardom. The fall from grace. The repercussions. How did it happen? The way to the top. The way to demise. The bits and pieces. The characters: accomplices and foes. Hwang versus Raelians. Synopsis of the dogged reports -- 13. Legal and ethical issues. How? What? Why? Therapeutic and reproductive cloning. Secret projects. Stigma of cloning. Ten AD (after Dolly). Cloning as an assisted reproductive technology. All is fine unless you are the clone. Where science meets the public. Issues with human cloning. Cloning as reprotech. Ethical issues with cloning. My father is my twin. Can a clone run for U.S. Presidency? The genie is out of the bottle. In vitro fertilization debate. Reproductive cloning d�e j�avu. Overcoming legal and ethical impasse. Private funding. Model organisms. Vertebrates. Invertebrates. Plants. Microorganisms. Circumventing ethical impasse. Message in a bottle from the future. To clone or not to clone? Why? Why not! Clone the law -- 14. At the crossroad. Relatively and genetically speaking. Divinity versus greed. The invisible hand. Fictitious commodities. Tapping into human resources. Mendel and Darwin. The invisible body. Sexual reproduction versus cloning -- Excellent references -- Food for thoughts. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784840603321 |
|
Lim Hwa A
|
||
| Singapore ; ; Hackensack, NJ, : World Scientific, c2006 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Multiplicity yours : cloning, stem cell research, and regenerative medicine / / Hwa A. Lim
| Multiplicity yours : cloning, stem cell research, and regenerative medicine / / Hwa A. Lim |
| Autore | Lim Hwa A |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Singapore ; ; Hackensack, NJ, : World Scientific, c2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxvii, 412 p. ) : ill. (some col.) |
| Disciplina | 176 |
| Soggetto topico |
Cloning
Cloning - Moral and ethical aspects Stem cells - Research Reproduction Genomics |
| ISBN |
1-281-37319-2
9786611373191 981-277-317-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Prologue. About the title of the book. Risks of writing this book. The title revisited. What has gravity got to do with this book? One-handed scientist. Information cornucopia. Will the Y chromosome decay and take men with it? A goal of this book. Inside this book. Best use of this book -- 2. A primer on genetics. Living things. Tinkering using technology. Survival of the fittest. How genetics changed the course of history. Timeline of genetics -- 3. Sex, a primal instinct. The primal instinct for sex. Emperor penguins. Salmons. Pacific grunions. Other aspects of sex. Sex reigns, birds and bees do it, but why? Models of co-evolution. The deleterious mutation hypothesis. The Red Queen hypothesis. Computer simulations. Supporting evidence. Scandal without sex. Selfish genes. Selfishly altruistic kin selection -- 4. Mating dance. Basic instinct. Scents of love. Cupid's chemicals. Mating dance. Of man and ape. Sexual matrimony and polyamory. And less love. Tug of war, In Utero. Back into the past and future -- 5. Quest for perfection. Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. Ancient definition of perfection. Search for the perfect face. Search for hour-glass figure. The myth of beauty. The cute factor. No choice for baby. Selective paternal reproduction. The founding of Rome. Selective maternal reproduction. Eugenics. First stage. Second stage. Third stage. Fourth stage -- 6. Invisible hand in the human body shop. The human life cycle. The reproductive cycle. Sex hormones. Inside the womb. Birth defects. The invisible hand in human body commerce. From alchemy to algeny. In vitro fertilization. IVF the Aussie style. The business of in vitro fertilization. IVF children. Donor insemination. DI half-siblings. Hello Dolly, good-bye Dolly -- 7. Clonology. Parthenogenesis, virgin birth. Cloning. Clonology. Cloning Hollywood style. The celebrated Dolly, but second to computer chips. Clones of clones of a clone. Jerky bulls and Yang cows. Second chance, clone of the oldest bull. Artificial monkey twins. Clone of a clone - more bulls. Cloned piglets. Reversing aging. Other notable cloning efforts. Jurassic amusement park? More calves and piglets. More endangered species cloned. Multi-legged bio-x. Multi-legged bio-reactors. Multi-legged bio-facturers. Nature versus nano. Multi-legged bio-models. Multi-legged bio-factories -- 8. Petory and biofactory. PerPETually yours. K-9 cloning. Snuppy. Dupli-cat. Cc: genetic anomaly. Commercial grade pet cloning. Cloning rabbitly. A stubborn clone. Cloned equine twin of surrogate mother. Ethically yours. Odd-inarily yours -- 9. Cloning techniques. Twins, twice the fun. Nonidentical twins - siblings of the same age. Identical twins - natural clones. Mirror image and conjoined twins. Interest in twins. Identical twins are more identical than clones. En route to commercialization. Artificial twinning technique. Nuclear transfer technique. The Roslin technique. The Honolulu technique. The chromatin transfer technique. Twinning Roslin in Honolulu. Honolulu versus Dolly. First male clone -- 10. Reproductive human cloning. Super clones? Tinkering with conception. Natural birth versus cloning. Hardware and software of sexual reproduction. Hardware and software of cloning. Physiology of human cloning. Key human cloning mavericks. Richard Seed. Claude Vorilhon and Brigitte Boisselier. Severino Antinori. Panayiotis Zavos. Avi Ben-Abraham. Human embryo "clones". Clone abortion. Why hybrid? The "clone" stork, real or Rael? -- 11. The alchemy of stem cells. Organ transplant. Growing human organs? Stem cell. Derivation of stem cells. Banking embryonic and fetal parts. Lifeline - cord blood. Multipotent adult stem cells. Stem cells from fat. Medical uses of stem cells. Stem cell gold mines. Growing breast from a stem cell. Regenerative medicine. Why regenerative medicine? Regenerative medicine and stem cell research. Regeneration, stem cells and aging. Master cells and master genes -- 12. Stem cell entities. Stem cell nations. Sweden. United Kingdom. Australia. Singapore. Israel. Japan. India. China. Korea. United States. Case study: Harvard Stem Cell Institute. Case study: California Institute of Regenerative Medicine. East versus West. A shenanigans of scandalous proportion. The rise to international stardom. The fall from grace. The repercussions. How did it happen? The way to the top. The way to demise. The bits and pieces. The characters: accomplices and foes. Hwang versus Raelians. Synopsis of the dogged reports -- 13. Legal and ethical issues. How? What? Why? Therapeutic and reproductive cloning. Secret projects. Stigma of cloning. Ten AD (after Dolly). Cloning as an assisted reproductive technology. All is fine unless you are the clone. Where science meets the public. Issues with human cloning. Cloning as reprotech. Ethical issues with cloning. My father is my twin. Can a clone run for U.S. Presidency? The genie is out of the bottle. In vitro fertilization debate. Reproductive cloning d�e j�avu. Overcoming legal and ethical impasse. Private funding. Model organisms. Vertebrates. Invertebrates. Plants. Microorganisms. Circumventing ethical impasse. Message in a bottle from the future. To clone or not to clone? Why? Why not! Clone the law -- 14. At the crossroad. Relatively and genetically speaking. Divinity versus greed. The invisible hand. Fictitious commodities. Tapping into human resources. Mendel and Darwin. The invisible body. Sexual reproduction versus cloning -- Excellent references -- Food for thoughts. |
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