Human Dignity and Human Cloning

Front Matter....Pages I-XXI
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Creation and the Dignity of Man in Islam....Pages 3-12
The Pali Buddhist Approach to Human Cloning....Pages 13-22
Some Aspects of the Buddhist Assessment of Human Cloning....Pages 23-33
The Jewish Perspective on Cloning....Pages 35-45
Christianity and Western Philosophy....Pages 47-51
Front Matter....Pages 53-53
Human Cloning from a Scientific Perspective....Pages 55-60
Front Matter....Pages 61-61
The Human Embryo is a Person and not an Object....Pages 63-67
Does the German Basic Law Protect against Human Cloning?....Pages 69-75
Does Cloning Violate the Basic Law’s Guarantee of Human Dignity?....Pages 77-85
Back to Kant! An Interjection in the Debate on Cloning and Human Dignity....Pages 87-106
From Procreation to Generation? Constitutional and Legal-Political Issues in Bioethics....Pages 107-121
Front Matter....Pages 123-123
International Legal Limits to Human Cloning....Pages 125-132
Who Is Protected by Human Rights Conventions? Protection of the Embryo vs. Scientific Freedom and Public Health....Pages 133-143
The Negotiations on a Treaty on Cloning: Some Reflections....Pages 145-165
A Convention on Cloning — Annotations to an almost Unsolvable Dilemma....Pages 167-182
Back Matter....Pages 183-319