Cloning and the future of human embryo research / edited by Paul Lauritzen.

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

xi, 291 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Moral status of the preimplantation embryo. Respect for human embryos / Bonnie Steinbock -- Source or resource? : human embryo research as an ethical issue / Courtney S. Campbell -- Creating embryos for research : on weighing symbolic costs / Maura A. Ryan -- Casuistry, virtue, and the slippery slope : major problems with producing human embryonic life for research purposes / James Keenan, S.J. -- Every cell is sacred : logical consequences of the argument from potential in the age of cloning / R. Alta Charo. Debates surrounding cloning and embryo research. Cloning human beings : an assessment of the ethical issues pro and con / Dan W. Brock -- Much ado about mutton : an ethical review of the cloning controversy / Ronald M. Green -- Born again : faith and yearning in the cloning controversy / Laurie Zoloth. Public policy issues. Responsibility and regulation : reproductive technologies, cloning, and embryo research / Carol A. Tauer -- Consensus, ethics, and politics in cloning and embryo research / Jonathan D. Moreno, Alex John London -- Morality, religion, and public bioethics : shifting the paradigm for the public discussion of embryo research and human cloning / Brian Stiltner -- The law meets reproductive technology : the prospect of human cloning / Heidi Forster, Emily Ramsey -- Appendix 1: Human embryo research panel report : executive summary -- Appendix 2: National bioethics advisory commission report on cloning : executive summary -- Appendix 2a: National bioethics advisory commission report on cloning : excerpts from chapter 2, The science and application of cloning.