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Clone Being: Exploring the Psychological and Social Dimensions

Clone Being: Exploring the Psychological and Social Dimensions


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Most people think the risks of reproductive cloning are so high as to make trying to clone a person immoral. Even if the medical risks could be reduced greatly, many believe a clone would still risk great psychological harm, and that the practice of reproductive cloning would also be detrimental to society. Others dismiss these concerns as speculative, and point to the possible good they believe it could do. But we need not wait for the first clone to be born to systematically consider the possible psychological and social ramifications of cloning. Marshalling psychological and sociological theory and research, and drawing upon extensive clinical experiences as a psychiatrist and psychotherapist, Levick explores the various dimensions of cloning. Clone Being attempts to anticipate possible consequences for a clone, his or her "parents" and family, and society. Psychotherapy case material enlivens and illustrates the book and the reader is helped to identify "clone-like" aspects of his or her own experience and mental life, and of contemporary life. Through this process, the book comes to important conclusions about human nature, including the crucial roles of intimacy, sex, and sexuality for society. The clinical and scientifically grounded insights of this book should help inform the reader's ethical judgments and attitudes about cloning people.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 The Identical Twin Model
Chapter 4 The Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Arrangements Model
Chapter 5 The Stepchild Model
Chapter 6 The Adoption Model
Chapter 7 The Parent-Child Resemblance Model
Chapter 8 The Child of the Famous Model
Chapter 9 The Replacement Child Model
Chapter 10 The Namesake Model
Chapter 11 The Models Integrated
Chapter 12 Wider Social and Cultural Implications of Cloning
Chapter 13 Intimacy, Sex, and Sexuality
Chapter 14 Implications for Cloning Ethics and Policy



About the Author :
Stephen E. Levick is clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

Review :
"Stephen Levick has written a uniquely thought-provoking treatment of the possible psychological and social consequences of reproductive cloning. Regardless of one's stance on this current controversy, his book will be a most fascinating and informative journey." - Dr. Nancy Segal, author of Entwined Lives: Twins and What They Tell Us About Human Behavior; California State University, Fullerton; "For some time now, we have all been listening to a din of voices on cloning, each offering a different opinion on the genetics and medical aspects, ethics and religious implications. Now at last, thanks to Dr. Levick, we have a full, eloquent, knowing, and deeply humane account of human cloning and its potential for good or ill on the human psyche." - Jason W. Brown, Clinical Professor of Neurology at the NYU Medical Center; "In this brilliant and intriguing book, Levick anticipates the psychological and social consequences of human reproductive cloning, Containing a wealth of information drawn from the author's clinical experience and the psychiatric literature, this book is a welcome antidote to the hype and armchair speculation prompted by the prospect of cloning." - Ruth Macklin, Dr. Shoshanah Trachtenberg Frackman Faculty Scholar in Biomedical Ethics. Albert Einstein College of Medicine; "Clone Being is a deeply probing, predictive, and informative examination of a topic about which at present there are still mostly fears, dreams, and hopes." - J. Alexis Burland, M. D., Distinguished Life Member of the American Psychiatric Association and Training/Supervising Psychoanalyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia"


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780742529908
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 336
  • Spine Width: 19 mm
  • Weight: 476 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0742529908
  • Publisher Date: 09 Dec 2003
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Exploring the Psychological and Social Dimensions
  • Width: 150 mm


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