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(1.) Lan Kang, Jianle Wang, Yu Zhang, et al., iPS Cells Can Support Full-Term
Development of Tetraploid Blastocyst-Complemented Embryos, Cell Stem
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Mouse Embryos, Nature 420 (2002): 255.
(18.) E.g., Franoise Baylis, The HFEA Public Consultation Process on Hybrids
and Chimeras: Informed, Effective, and Meaningful? Kennedy Institute of
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(19.) Franoise Baylis and Andrew Fenton, Chimera Research and Stem Cell
Therapies for Human Neurodegenerative Disorders, Cambridge Quarterly of
Healthcare Ethics 16 (2007): 195208.
(20.) At this point, twinning is no longer possible and organ systems,
including the nervous system, have begun to develop, marking a time of
higher level cellular co-ordination and the more obvious emergence of an
organism.
(71.) I would like to thank Dr. James Yeates for incredible and invaluable
help and directions to the literature. I have learnt much from his work and
benefitted significantly from his research. I would also like to thank Professor
Loane Skene for her many valuable discussions and our joint work on this
topic.
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(21.) In theory, the majority of the organism could be animal if enough
genes were transferred into the one-cell embryo. However, this is not on the
horizon at present.
(22.) Nigel Hawkes, Nobel Scientists Urge Fertility Watchdog to Back Hybrid
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Expression of our Humanity, 2225.
(34.) I have rejected this position at length in Julian Savulescu, The
Human Prejudice and the Moral Status of Enhanced Beings, in Human
Enhancement, ed. Julian Savulescu and Nick Bostrom (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2009), 21150.
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the Human Neuron Mouse, American Journal of Bioethics 7 (2007): 2740.
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(37.) Donald M. Broom, Welfare Assessment and Relevant Ethical Decisions:
Key Concepts, Annual Review of Biomedical Sciences 10 (2008): T79T90.
(38.) Dominic Wilkinson, Guy Kahane, and Julian Savulescu, Neglected
Personhood and Neglected Questions: Remarks on the Moral Significance
of Consciousness, American Journal of Bioethics 8 (2008): 3133; Guy
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Consciousness, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 34 (2009): 626.
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(45.) Bernard E. Rollin, Animal Rights and Human Morality (Buffalo, N.Y.:
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Cambridge University Press, 1995); Robert Heeger and Frans W. A. Brom,
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Press, 1993); Peter Singer, Rethinking Life and Death: The Collapse of Our
Traditional Ethics (Oxford: University Press, 1995); Michael Tooley, Abortion
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(47.) See further the essays in this Handbook by Michael Tooley as well as by
Sarah Chan and John Harris.
(48.) Joshua P. Johansen, Howard L. Fields, and Barton H. Manning, The
Affective Component of Pain in Rodents: Direct Evidence for a Contribution of
the Anterior Cingulate Cortex, PNAS 98 (2001): 807782.
(49.) Adapted from Julian Savulescu, Anders Sandberg, and Guy Kahane,
What is Enhancement and Why We Should Enhance Cognition, in
Enhancing Human Capacities, ed. Ruud ter Meulen, Guy Kahane, and Julian
Savulescu (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010).
(50.) Julian Savulescu and Nick Bostrom, eds., Human Enhancement (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2009); Julian Savulescu, Genetic Interventions
and the Ethics of Enhancement of Human Beings, The Oxford Handbook
of Bioethics, ed. Bonnie Steinbock (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007),
51635; John Harris, Enhancing Evolution: The Ethical Case for Making Better
People (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2007); Ruud Ter Meulen,
Julian Savulescu, and Guy Kahane, eds., Enhancing Human Capacities
(Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010); Julian Savulescu, Genetic Enhancement,
in A Companion to Bioethics, 2nd ed., ed. Helga Kuhse and Peter Singer
(Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009).
(51.) Martha C. Nussbaum, Beyond Compassion and Humanity: Justice for
Animals? in Animal Rights, ed. Cass R. Sunstein and Martha C. Nussbaum
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), 299320; Bernard E. Rollin, The
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Unheeded Cry: Animal Consciousness, Animal Pain and Science (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1989).
(52.) Rollin, Unheeded Cry.
(53.) Savulescu et al., What is Enhancement and Why We Should Enhance
Cognition?; Julian Savulescu and Guy Kahane, Disability: A Welfarist
Approach. Clinical Ethics 6 (2011): 4551.
(54.) Savulescu and Kahane, Disability: A Welfarist Approach; and
Savulescu and Kahane, The Moral Obligation to Create Children with the
Best Chance of the Best Life. Bioethics 23 (2009): 27490.
(55.) For a comprehensive treatment of this kind of problem, see John
Broome, Weighing Lives (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).
(56.) Savulescu, Should We Clone Human Beings? Cloning as a Source of
Tissue Transplantion, Journal of Medical Ethics 25 (1999): 8795.
(57.) McMahan, Ethics of Killing.
(58.) Parfit, Reasons and Persons (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985).
(59.) Savulescu and Kahane, Moral Obligation to Create Children with the
Best Chance of the Best Life.
(60.) Savulescu and Kahane, Moral Obligation to Create Children with the
Best Chance of the Best Life; and Kahane and Savulescu, Welfarist Account
of Disability.
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Best Chance of the Best Life; Savulescu and Kahane, Welfarist Account of
Disability.
(62.) Julian Savulescu and Tony Hope, Ethics of Research, in The Routledge
Companion to Ethics, ed. John Skorupski (Abingdon: Routledge, 2010).
(63.) Savulescu, Genetic Interventions and the Ethics of Enhancement of
Human Beings; Savulescu and Hope, Ethics of Research.
(64.) Ruth R. Faden and Tom L. Beauchamp, A History and Theory of Informed
Consent (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986).
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(66.) Thomas Douglas and Julian Savulescu, Synthetic Biology and the Ethics
of Knowledge, Journal of Medical Ethics 36 (2010): 68793.
(67.) Much of this section is taken from Savulescu, Human-Animal
Transgenesis and Chimeras Might be an Expression of Our Humanity, 2225.
(68.) Cecil Anthony J. Coady, Playing God, in Human Enhancement, ed.
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(69.) Douglas and Savulescu, Synthetic Biology and the Ethics of
Knowledge.
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