The bioethics of individual human identity: cloning and the potential erasure of the human fingerprint.(Book Review)

From: Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science | Date: January 1, 2004| Author: Rygiel, Stephen D. | Copyright information

Human Cloning and Human Dignity:The Report of the President's Council on Bioethics, Leon R. Kass, M.D., Chairman, 350 pp. New York, NY: Public Affairs, 2002.

In the 1932 novel, A Brave New World, Aldous Huxley imagined a future when identical human beings would be technologically manufactured in batches using a fictitious "Bokanovsky Process." Modern science, warned Huxley, could one day be responsible for alleviating all suffering, disease, and sadness. As a side effect...

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