Cloning

Event Ideas

The following is a list of resources that may be used for chapter meetings and events. Ideas range from book clubs to movie nights and from roundtable discussions to large events.

Movies

• The Boys from Brazil

• Multiplicity

• The 6th Day

• Gattaca

Suggested Speakers

• Elizabeth Blackburn
  Cell Biologist
  University of California San Francisco

• Reverend Kevin T. Fitzgerald
  Bioethicist
  Georgetown University

• Larry Goldstein
  Stem Cell Researcher
  University of Califonia San Diego

• Leon Kass, Ph.D.
  Chairman
  Presidential Council on Bioethics

• Robert Lanza, M.D.
  Medical Director
  Advanced Cell Technologies

• Tim McCaffrey
  Cardiovascular Researcher
  George Washington University

• Elizabeth Marincola
  Executive Director
  The American Society for Cell Biology

• Bernard Siegel
  Founder, Executive Director, Child Advocacy Attorney
  Genetics Policy Institute

• Evan Snyder
  Stem Cell Expert
  Burnham Institute

• Irving Weissman
  Stem Cell Researcher
  Stanford University
  

Websites

• New Scientist
  www.newscientist.com/hottopics/cloning/

• AAAS
  www.aaas.org

• Genetics Policy Institute
  www.genpol.org

• Human Cloning Foundation
  www.HumanCloning.org

• Americans to Ban Cloning
  www.cloninginformation.org

• Advanced Cell Technology
  www.advancedcell.com

• The President's Council on Bioethics
  http://bioethics.gov

• Christian Medical and Dental Associations
  http://cmdahome.org

• World Health Organization
  www.who.int

• Clonaid
  www.clonaid.com

• The American Society for Cell Biology
  www.ascb.org

• Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research
  http://www.stemcellfunding.org/fastaction/

• National Human Genome Research Institute
  http://www.genome.gov/10004765

• Coalition of Americans for Research Ethics
  http://www.stemcellresearch.org/

• Cord Blood Donor Foundation
  http://www.cordblooddonor.org/index.htm
  

Books and Publications

• Our Post-Human Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution
  by Francis Fukuyama

• Human Cloning and Human Dignity: Report of the President's Council on Bioethics
  Foreword by Leon R. Kass

• The Ethics of Human Cloning
  by Leon R. Kass and James Q. Wilson

• Cloning and the Future of Human Embryo Research
  by Paul Lauritzen (ed)

• Human Cloning: Science, Ethics, and Public Policy
  by Barbara MacKinnon (ed)

• The Human Cloning Debate
  by Glenn McGee (ed)

• Clones and Clones: Facts and Fantasies about Human Cloning
  by Martha C. Nussbaum (ed)

• Remaking Eden: Cloning and Beyond in a Brave New World
  by Lee M. Silver

• Redesigning Humans
  by Greg Stock

• The Second Creation: Dolly and the Age of Biological Control
  by Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell and Colin Tudge

• Fiction:
  Brave New World
  by Aldous Huxley
  

Articles

• "Scientist Lauded After Government Fires Her" by Paul Elias (Washington Post, March 20, 2004)

• "2 Friends, 242 Eggs and a Breakthrough" by Claudia Dreifus (NY Times, February 17, 2004)

• "Our Cloning Policy, Hostage to a Stalemate" by Francis Fukuyama (Washington Post, February 15, 2004)

• "South Korean Scientists Describe Cloning: Others Worry Over Who Will Use Data" by Rick Weiss (Washington Post, February 13, 2004)

• "GU to Continue Controversial Research: Use of Aborted Fetal Cells Prompts Probe at Catholic Institution" by Amy Argetsinger and Avram Goldstein (Washington Post, January 30, 2004)

• "Seven Days of Creation" by Wendy Goldman Rohm (WIRED, January 2004)

• "Human Cloning Marches On, Without U.S. Help" by Nicholas Wade (NY Times, February 15, 2004)

• "Statement by Academy President Bruce Alberts on Renewed U.N. Debate on a Proposed Global Ban on Cloning Research" (www.nas.edu, December 8, 2003)

• "Blood Could Generate Body Repair Kit" (NewScientist.com, November 26, 2003)

• "Europe Backs Embryonic Stem Cell Research" (NewScientist.com, November 19, 2003)

• "Promoting Ethical Regenerative Medicine Research and Prohibiting Immoral Human Reproductive Cloning" by Leon R. Kass (Testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee March 19, 2003)

• The Ethics of Human Cloning by Leon R. Kass (Testimony to the House Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space, January 29, 2003)

• "The New Cloning Superpower" by Charles C. Mann (WIRED, January 2003)

• "Dr. Robert Lanza: Human Cloning 'Abhorrent' interview with Sanjay Gupta and Daryn Kagan" (CNN's "American Morning," December 27, 2002)

• "President's Bioethics Council Delivers" by Stephen S. Hall (Science, July 19, 2002)