TY - JOUR AU - Bulcock, Jennifer A. AB - Journal of Medicine and Philosophy , 34 : 93 – 101, 2009 doi:10.1093/jmp/jhp018 Advance Access publication on March 9, 2009 JENNIFER A. BULCOCK Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA Although this issue of The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy is nonthe- matic, the articles it contains are similar in the way each employs a novel approach for understanding or examining an important issue. Each author has sought to reinterpret the context of a particular debate by pointing out a tension between the separate ethical treatments of related procedures, iden- tifying where a debate has been misguided, taking a more practical and in- clusive approach for establishing fair principles, suggesting a new framework of evaluation, or reinterpreting a well-worn thought experiment. In “ Therapeutic Cloning and Reproductive Liberty, ” Robert Sparrow identi- fi es and examines a widely neglected tension that arises between the sepa- rate ethical treatments of therapeutic and reproductive applications of somatic nuclear cell transfer cloning. In the context of reproductive cloning, the ge- netic parents of the embryo are granted authority over its production and destruction in accord with the concept of reproductive liberty. Alternatively, in cases of therapeutic cloning, the patient, or DNA donor, is granted TI - Introduction JF - The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy DO - 10.1093/jmp/jhp018 DA - 2009-03-09 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/introduction-SMAlb36CQO SP - 93 EP - 101 VL - 34 IS - 2 DP - DeepDyve ER -