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Human rights and bioethics updates

A blog dedicated to updating you upon legislation and ethical debates around human rights (principally under the angle of law-enforcement forces) and bioethics (under the angle of the protection of vulnerable persons). You are welcome to leave your comments on any of the posts!

Wednesday, May 18, 2005

An article of Henri Atlan on human cloning... and his reading of the Jewish tradition as regards cloning... And a conference by the same Atlan

To continue in some way your reflection on the views of Henri Atlan, I am giving you here the link to a site where he speaks of the Jewish tradition applied to cloning. You may read the article (in French) over here: http://ghansel.free.fr/clone.html

If you understand spoken French, and you wish to hear Henri Atland defending his views, you may click on this link to hear a conference by the latter before the Ecole Normale Supérieure, a high place of French intelligentsia. I give you two warnings: first, I have not heard the conference myself, and I do not in any way share the views of the author. The second warning is that it takes about 22 MB to download as an mp3 file (just to change from those habitual pirated music you download on Kazaa or other p2p softwares...). Get the file here: http://www.diffusion.ens.fr/audio/2003_03_24_atlan.mp3

If you make a small google search on Henri Atlan and "utérus artificiel", you may be astounded as the media hype around this idea of which the author himself admits that the researches are only at a primitive stage. This tells a lot of media campaigning to change perceptions in the people.