Since Scottish biologist Ian Wilmut's 1997 cloning of Dolly the sheep, mice, cattle, goats, pigs, cats, mules, horses, and most recently, rats have joined the list of cloned animals, pushing the possibilities for scientific manipulation of life to new extremes. The first book to present Wilmut's own thoughts on the troubling ramifications of this technology, this new edition also contains discussions about the advantages and disadvantages of cloning, stem cell research, and a survey of religious perspectives.

History and technique of cloning / Potter Wickware -- The ethics of stem cell therapy / G. McGee ... [et al.] -- Human cloning and human dignity : an ethical inquiry / The President's Council on Bioethics -- Crossing lines / Charles Krauthammer -- Would cloned humans really be like sheep? / Leon Eisenberg -- Reflections on Dolly : what can animal cloning tell us about the human cloning debate? / Autumn Fiester -- The uncertain art : Narcissus looks into the laboratory / Sherwin Nuland -- The wisdom of repugnance / Leon Kass -- Is biomedical research too dangerous to pursue? / Arthur Caplan -- Cloning as a reproductive right / John Robertson -- From reproductive medicine to human design : what are we really afraid of? / Gregory Stock. Cloning babies is not inherently immoral / Ronald Bailey -- A model for regulating cloning / Glenn McGee and Ian Wilmut -- The future is later / Chris Mooney -- Protestant objections to human cloning / Ronald Cole-Turner -- A Catholic perspective on stem cell research / Richard Doerflinger -- In God's garden : creation and cloning in Jewish thought / Jonathan R. Cohen -- Human clones and god's trust : the Islamic view / Munawar Ahmad Anees -- Buddhism and cloning / Courtney Campbell -- The ethics and politics of small sacrifices in stem cell research / Glenn McGee and Arthur Caplan -- Please don't call it cloning! / B. Vogelstein, B. Alberts, and K. Shine -- Remarks by the president on human cloning legislation / George W. Bush -- Remarks by the president on stem cell research / George W. Bush -- The politics of bioethics : playing defense is not enough / Eric Cohen and William Kristol.