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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Human cloning"”.
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Human cloning : science, ethics, policy, society
… to our understanding of and relation with human cloning. Genetic science and technology at the end of the twentieth century has permitted successful cloning of mammals and other animals. Such advancement has raised key ethical issues regarding the prospect of cloning human beings. …
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The Rhetoric of Repugnance: Popular Culture and Unpopular Notions in the Human Cloning Debate
… fiction literature shaped the discourse on cloning following the announcement of Dolly-the-sheep's birth through nuclear transfer. Using methodologies drawn from the social shaping of technology (SST) and rhetoric of science, my analysis demonstrates how individuals and institutions, …
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Across the great divide : chimeras and species boundaries
… hybrids of multiple animals-and sometimes humans-appear repeatedly in mythology across cultures from ancient times to the present. Since the early 1980s, scientists have been creating cross-species chimeras, first combining mouse species that could not interbreed naturally, then moving on …
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Your Self Again: Clones, Originals, and True Selves of Science Fiction
… ideas of personal identity in the light of human cloning in science fiction (SF). Its main aim is to understand how SF writers can benefit from theories of identity and characterisation to develop fictional characters in clone narratives. The thesis will engage with the history of cloning, …
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Ijtihad in Twelver Shi-ism : the interpretation and application of Islamic law in the context of changing Muslim society
… including insurance policies, Islamic banking, human dissection, organ donation, and woman's right to judge and to be followed are discussed briefly in the sixth chapter. By studying and examining in detail the rulings of the Shari'a, as extracted by some leading fuqaha, on the new reproductive …
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The debate on stem cell research in the EU
The stem cell and therapeutic cloning debate was a major issue in the discussions under the sixth and seventh Framework programmes for research and Development. This dissertation studies the differences between Member States, Political Groups and Institutions on the matter. This is done by …