Bioethics: Definition, Cloning, Food, and Organs
Not surprisingly, news involving one organism or another being cloned is not that infrequent in today’s world. It seems that the most predominant use of cloning is to serve the interests of human beings. While some researchers have worked with cloning that would benefit the natural world, cloning efforts focuses for example on the breeding populations of endangered species or actually reintroducing species that have gone extinct, the primary focus of cloning is to serve humans themselves either by increasing food supply or by providing transplant organs. The intent of this paper is to review some of the more frequent applications of cloning and to discuss those applications for a bioethics standpoint and discussed the areas of cloning, livestock, and stem cell issues and concerns that occurred within the past year or so. Few of us if any really do not know the term of bioethics! According to The American Heritage® Dictionary, “bioethics” means “the study of the moral implications of new biological discoveries and biomedical advances, as in the fields of genetic engineering and drug research.” (The American Heritage Dictionary Of the English Language, Fourth Edition). "Bioethics" also means the study of ethical problems and arising from biological research and its applications and such fields as organ transplantation, genetic engineering, or artificial insemination. (The American Heritage Dictionary Of the English Language, Fourth Edition).
When people think of the word cloning, they constantly think of frightening images of duplicate human beings created in somewhat of a mad scientist style experiment. In fact, numerous members of the public were shocked “when, Dolly the sheep resulted from a cloning experiment in Scotland. Therapeutic cloning, however, is entirely different and does not involve the creation of a somewhat copied human being” (Adult stem cells, 2009 ). It is the reproductive cloning which results in a copy of a specific human being. The
When people think of the word cloning, they constantly think of frightening images of duplicate human beings created in somewhat of a mad scientist style experiment. In fact, numerous members of the public were shocked “when, Dolly the sheep resulted from a cloning experiment in Scotland. Therapeutic cloning, however, is entirely different and does not involve the creation of a somewhat copied human being” (Adult stem cells, 2009 ). It is the reproductive cloning which results in a copy of a specific human being. The
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