PHLB09H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Psychological Stress, Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer, Biological Determinism
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Week 14 lecture #23: tuesday december 1, 2015. Somatic cell nuclear transfer: de-nucleate egg cell, re-nucleate w/ donor somatic cell, stimulate division, transfer embryo to uterus. Shouldn"t be worried about the reproduction of perfect identity. The idea that identity is perfectly determined by your genetic makeup. Nature not exclusion in determining identity, nurture is important just as well. New technology might not be perfect, don"t know it well enough. Nature things are sth like cancer and bad . Medicine in general might be unnatural, not a natural occurring of nature, but it"s. Too much emphasis on nature vs natural, but the morality is more important. Genetic determinism false, then unique identity still exist. 2nd person the clone will be burden to behave like the original person. But kind of hard sell, determines t. When infernal, but still want to be genetically related to offspring. Whether being genetically related makes this morally permissible.
