Human dignity and human cloning / / edited by Silja Voneky and Rudiger Wolfrum.
"Human Dignity and Human Cloning" contains contributions by philosophers, theologians and lawyers on legal and ethical questions concerning the reproductive and therapeutic cloning of human beings. The main focus lies on the admissibility of cloning in German Constitutional law as well as...
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| Year of Publication: | 2004 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. 2004. |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxi, 319 pages) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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