Human cloning: ethical aspects

Authors

  • Daniel Romero Muñoz Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo e Faculdade de Ciências Médicas da Santa Casa de São Paulo.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-2770.v9i1-2p5-8

Keywords:

Cloning, organism/trends, Ethics, Bioethics.

Abstract

Moral dilemmas have greatly increased since the birth of Dolly, the clone sheep, and those led to an unreasoned and misinformed argumentations to prohibit this kind of research in many countries. In this article the author examines the reasons of those dilemmas in the light of bioethics and the update knowledge, emphasizing that the best politics is not the prohibition but the control of freedom research. Particular attention is paid to the question of the that in Brazil there is mechanism that would be used to get this kind of research under control, but effort is necessary to developing of ethical sense, mainly, of the future researchers.

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Author Biography

  • Daniel Romero Muñoz, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo e Faculdade de Ciências Médicas da Santa Casa de São Paulo.
    Professor responsável pelas disciplinas de Medicina Legal da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São
    Paulo e Bioética e Medicina Legal da Faculdade de Ciências Médicas da Santa Casa de São Paulo.

Published

2004-11-07

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