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Curr Health Sci J, vol. 37, no. 3, 2011

Ethical Considerations on Human Cloning

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ENESCU AURELIA (1) , MITRUT P. (2) , IOVANESCU L. (2), IOANA M.(3), BURADA FL.(3) , ANCA-STEFANIA ENESCU(4)


(1)Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova;
(2) Department of Internal Medecine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova,
(3)Department of Genetics, University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova;
(4)Department of Oro-Maxilo-Facial Surgery, University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova


Abstract:

Cloning is the process by which a genetically identical copy of a certain bacteria, plant or animal is produced by asexual reproduction. There are two types discussed human cloning: therapeutic cloning and reproductive cloning, more likely to achieve a therapeutic cloning is more accessible in terms of technique, but also less morally problematic. Ethics of human cloning has become an important issue in recent years. Legalize human cloning is in the heart of the debate world, was proposed legalizing therapeutic cloning as the only way to investigate, with chances of success, the basic criterion for funding such programs as the main objective being to find treatments for incurable diseases. The cloning of human organs and their use for transplantation or cloning human beings must be taken into account technical and economic barriers


Keywords: human cloning, ethics, stem cell



Corresponding: Enescu Aurelia MD, PhD, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova, Str Petru Rares nr. 4, 200456, Craiova, Dolj, RomAnia; mail: ancaenescus@yahoo.com


DOI 10.12865/CHSJ.37.03.10 - Download PDF
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