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Cloning: Human

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In this entry, the definitions and technological achievements for human cloning will be briefly discussed. The main part will concentrate on ethical questions arising from these technologies, and finally, the present situation with global legal regulation of the issue will be described.

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Further Reading

  • Maimets, T., & Lõuk, K. (2014). Human cloning. In H. A. M. J. ten Have & B. Gordijn (Eds.), Handbook of global bioethics (pp. 699–718). Dordrecht: Springer.

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  1. Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Riia 23b-135, 51010, Tartu, Estonia

    Toivo Maimets

  2. Centre for Ethics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

    Kristi Lõuk

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    Henk ten Have

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Maimets, T., Lõuk, K. (2014). Cloning: Human. In: ten Have, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05544-2_95-1

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