Cloning...a point of view
Date Submitted: 09/09/2006 22:56:58
Category: / Social Sciences / Controversial Issues
Length: 3 pages (856 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Controversial Issues
Length: 3 pages (856 words)
The term clone evokes rather frightening thoughts by many. Images of armies of identical people lacking individuality remind many of Aldous Huxley's fiction of a genetically engineered world. Despite the general public fear of this fictional view of cloning, science has a purer purpose of clones. Cloning in one sense is modern science's attempt to improve the statistics of natural reproduction. Reproduction naturally is inefficient; however, with the medical technology now available, science is helping …
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…Leon Eisenberg writes, "it has been assumed that the result (of cloning) would be psychological as well as physical identity between the originator of the clone and his or her cloned offspring. This unwarranted assumption reveals the persistence of the concept of predestination as a causal force in development, despite its incompatibility with biological evidence."
Leon E. (1976) The Outcome as Cause: Predestination and Human Cloning. The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, vol. 1, no. 4 p. 318-31.
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