Therapeutic Cloning, Respect for Human Embryo, and Symbolic Value

Jonathan K L Chan

doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-8967-1_8

Therapeutic Cloning, Respect for Human Embryo, and Symbolic Value

Jonathan K L Chan^*

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Department of Religion and Philosophy

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Abstract

The field of regenerative medicine is fraught with moral controversy. This paper explores only one cluster of the disputes it provokes: the ethics of therapeutic cloning in the context of human embryonic stem (ES) cells research, that is, the ethics of the application of the technology of somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) to produce human embryonic stem (ES) cells for research or therapy.¹ The technique involves creating human embryos, which can serve as sources of human ES cells. In the process of deriving the human ES cells, the cloned human embryo, that is, the enucleated human egg transplanted with a somatic cell nucleus, will be destroyed at the blastocyst stage.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Bioethics of Regenerative Medicine
Editors	King-Tak Ip
Publisher	Springer, Dordrecht
Pages	107-116
Number of pages	10
Edition	1st
ISBN (Electronic)	9781402089671
ISBN (Print)	9781402089664, 9789048180387
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8967-1_8
Publication status	Published - 2009

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Name	Philosophy and Medicine
Volume	102
ISSN (Print)	0376-7418
ISSN (Electronic)	2215-0080

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Philosophy
Nursing (miscellaneous)
Health Policy

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Dead Body
Human Embryo
Moral Status
Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer
Therapeutic Cloning

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