Biotechnology and Cloning

Would you eat meat or milk from a cloned cow? Would you use medicine that has been developed from the cells of a human embryo? Is it acceptable to clone a human being? Advances in biotechnology mean that these questions are now relevant to us all. This book examines the scientific and ethical issues surrounding animal cloning, human cloning and stem cell research, covering issues such as how biotechnology is currently used and regulated, public attitudes towards it, motivations behind animal and human cloning as well as ethical concerns. The information comes from a wide range of sources and includes government reports and statistics, newspaper articles, features, magazine articles and surveys, literature from lobby groups and charitable organisations.