Towards an international convention against human reproductive cloning [Elektronische Ressource] / vorgelegt von Tinia Tober

TOWARDS AN INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION AGAINST HUMAN REPRODUCTIVE CLONING Inauguraldissertation zur Erlangung einer Doktorwürde der Juristischen Fakultät der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, vorgelegt von Tinia Tober Erstgutachter: Professor Dr. Hans Lilie Zweitgutachter: Professor Dr. Christian Tietje Verteidigungsdatum: 04.05.2006 urn:nbn:de:gbv:3-000010627[http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn=nbn%3Ade%3Agbv%3A3-000010627] ICONTENTS CONTENTS..................................................................................... I BIBLIOGRAPHY............................................................................V A. INTRODUCTION.......................................................................1 B. AN ASSESSMENT OF THE STATUS QUO: THE SCIENCE OF HUMAN CLONING AND CURRENT LEGAL REGULATION ........5 I. The science of human cloning5 1. Natural reproduction................................................................................5 2. Cloning techniques...................................................................................7 a) Embryo splitting..............................................................................7 b) Somatic cell nuclear transfer ...........................................................8 3. Selected biomedical purposes and possible applications of the cloning techniques .......................................................................................