After Dolly: The Uses and Misuses of Human Cloning

by Ian Wilmut, Roger Highfield

A brave, moral argument for cloning and its power to fight disease.

A timely investigation into the ethics, history, and potential of human cloning from Professor Ian Wilmut, who shocked scientists, ethicists, and the public in 1997 when his team unveiled Dolly—that very special sheep who was cloned from a mammary cell. With award-winning science journalist Roger Highfield, Wilmut explains how Dolly launched a medical revolution in which cloning is now used to make stem cells that promise effective treatments for many major illnesses. Dolly's birth also unleashed an avalanche of speculation about the eventuality of cloning babies, which Wilmut strongly opposes. However, he does believe that scientists should one day be allowed to combine the cloning of human embryos with genetic modification to free families from serious hereditary disease. In effect, he is proposing the creation of genetically altered humans. 20 illustrations.

Genres: Nonfiction, Science, Biology

256 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 2006

About the author

Sir Ian Wilmut, OBE FRS FMedSci FRSE (born 7 July 1944) is a British embryologist and Chair of the Scottish Centre for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. He is best known as the leader of the research group that in 1996 first cloned a mammal from an adult somatic cell, a Finnish Dorset lamb named Dolly. He was appointed OBE in 1999 for services to embryo development and knighted in the 2008 New Year Honours.

Reviews

[Logan Barker · Rating 1 out of 5]

When i got this book i was expecting what it said,the uses and misuses of human cloning.What i got was less the uses and missuses of cloning and more the life and times of ian wilmut.Well the book eventually did get to its stated goal for the first 100 or so pages it was just his biography. However once i did get to this part of the book it was interseting i was still bored out of my mind until that point.

[Tran Khuong · Rating 5 out of 5]

My mother is now gone!

I am finding a way to revival my love mother!

Every moments I am missing my mom!

[Alexandra · Rating 5 out of 5]

The book is written by a scientist, Ian Wilmut, who led a group that created that famous sheep, Dolly. Roger Highfield is a journalist and a science editor of the Daily Telegraph, so he helped the scientist to make the book readable. The book tells how the Dolly was cloned and discusses the technical and ethical problems of today genetics engineering and cloning of mammals, human embryos and humans. It is addressed to a general audience and no special education is required.

[Ariel · Rating 3 out of 5]

I learned from this book that unfortunately, even if I had all the money and power in the world, I would currently be unable to make another baby with a woman without risking it being fucked up in many ways for many reasons.

Technically possible through chimera nuclear transfer, but realistically impractical.

I'm still holding out hope for stem cell sperm though.

[Desiree · Rating 1 out of 5]

To much science for me

[Dragix · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this for research. It was worth it. There's more here than I can find on the internet. I'm waiting for the ebook format.

[Jared · Rating 4 out of 5]

Educational. Good history lesson.