Preface Part I: Background, Definitions and Current Legislation Introduction 1. Historical Background 2. National and International Legislation Part II: Developments in the Creation of Human-Nonhuman Combinations 3. Human-Nonhuman Transgenesis 4. Human-Nonhuman Gestation 5. Human-Nonhuman Hybrid Embryos 6. Human-Nonhuman Cytoplasmic Hybrids (Cybrids) 7. Human-Nonhuman Chimeras Part III: Cultural, Worldview and Ethical Perspectives 8. Cultural Perspectives 9. Worldview Perspectives 10. Ethical Perspectives 11. Ethical Analysis 12. Conclusions
A comprehensive survey of the current context and ethical implications of human-nonhuman genetic combinations.
David Albert Jones is Director of the Anscombe Bioethics Centre, Oxford, and Visiting Professor of Bioethics at St Mary's University College, London, UK. His previous book, Soul of the Embryo (Continuum, 2004) was shortlisted for the Michael Ramsey prize. Calum MacKellar is Director of Research with the Scottish Council on Human Bioethics, Edinburgh, UK and Visiting Professor of Bioethics at St Mary's University College, London, UK.
...groundbreaking and deeply disturbing... In this highly
recommended book, we see clearly how urgent and necessary it is for
a “greater range of voices from a greater range of perspectives” to
engage this most important of issues.
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