Selected Resources on Cloning

WebCat

WebCat is the online catalog for Osterlin Library that provides information about all of the books and government documents in the library. Materials on these topics can be located by doing a keyword or subject search using the Library of Congress subject heading cloning, or use the broader terms genetic engineering or reproduction, asexual or use the narrower terms clone cells, human cloning, or molecular cloning. To find more specific information, you may also combine the above terms with terms like business, ethical, religious, history, psychology, and sociology.

Reference Books

• Bioethics : sex, genetics & human reproduction
  REF HQ32 .B52 1998
  The issue of cloning is discussed in the sections on Reproductive Technologies and Genetics And The Law.
• Concise encyclopedia of the ethics in new technologies
  REF TP248.23 .C664 2001
  Covers human cloning to genetically modified foods.
• Encyclopedia of bioethics
  REF QH332 .E52 1995 V.2
  The chapter Genetic Engineering: Human Genetic Engineering
  has a section on ethical arguments and a short bibliography.
• Social issues in science and technology : an encyclopedia
  REF Q175.5 .N49 1999
  The section on Cloning contains a discussion of the Dolly experiment and potential consequences, as well as a list of references.

Books

• Understanding DNA and gene cloning : a guide for the curious
  QH442.2 .D75 1997
• Human cloning : religious responses / Ronald Cole-Turner, editor.
  QH442.2 .H86 1997
• Clone : the road to Dolly, and the path ahead / Gina Kolata.
  QH442.2 .K65 1998
• Who's afraid of human cloning? / Gregory E. Pence.
  QH442.2 .P46 1998

E-Books

NetLibrary eBooks Database
A collection of 10,000+ electronic books in a wide range of subject areas, including a special collection on Law & Political Theory. Search using the subject term cloning or those listed in the "WebCat" section above.

Government Documents

• Y1.1/7:105-97
  Draft legislation entitled the "Cloning Prohibition Act of 1997" : message from the President of the United States transmitting a draft of proposed legislation to prohibit any attempt to create a human being using somatic cell nuclear transfer to provide for further review of the ethical and scientific issues .... United States. President (1993- : Clinton).
• Y1.1/8:105-239/PT.1-
  Human Cloning Research Prohibition Act : report (to accompany H.R. 922) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office). United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science.
• Y1.1/8:107-170
  Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 2001 : report together with dissenting views (to accompany H.. 2505) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office). United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary.
• Y1.1/8:107-172
  Providing for consideration of H.R. 2505, Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 2001 : report (to accompany H. Res. 214). United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rules.
• Y4.L11/4:S.HRG.105-22
  Scientific discoveries in cloning : challenges for public policy : hearing before the Subcommittee on Public Health and Safety of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Fifth Congress, first session ... March 12, 1997. United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Public Health and Safety.
• Y4.L11/4:S.HRG.105-123
  Ethics and theology : a continuation of the national discussion on human cloning : hearing before the Subcommittee on Public Health and Safety of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Fifth Congress, first session, on examining the ethical and theological implications of human cloning, June 17, 1997. United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Public Health and Safety.
• Y4.SCI2:105/3
  Biotechnology and the ethics of cloning : how far should we go? : hearing before the Committee on Science, Subcommittee on Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, first session, March 5, 1997. United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Technology.
• Y4.SCI2:105/19(MF)
  Review of the President's commission's recommendations on cloning : hearing before the Committee on Science, Subcommittee on Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, first session, June 12, 1997. United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Technology.
• Y4.SCI2:105/32
  The prohibition of federal government funding of human cloning research : hearing before the Committee on Science, Subcommittee on Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, first session, July 22, 1997. United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Technology.

Databases

Go to Find Articles Online to use these databases to search for magazine, journal, and newspaper articles:

General Databases

• EbscoHost Academic Search Elite
  This multi-disciplinary database offers full text for nearly 1,850 scholarly journals, including nearly 1,300 peer-reviewed titles.
• InfoTrac General Reference Center Gold
  Full Text journal articles in a general interest and business database, 1980 to present.
• Opposing Viewpoints
  Full Text opinions and conclusions on current ethical and factual issues.

General Science Databases

• Applied Science & Technology Abstracts
  International and English-language periodicals, covering engineering, mathematics, physics, and computer technology. October 1983-.
• General Science Abstracts
  Journals and magazines covering such subjects as anthropology, astronomy, biology, computers, earth sciences, medicine and health, and much more. May 1984-.

Biology Databases

• BasicBIOSIS:
  Records from core life science journals most easily found in college and university libraries. 1994-.
• Biological & Agricultural Abstracts
  English-language periodicals in life sciences and agricultural subjects. July 1983-.
• Biology Digest
  Covering the life sciences for undergraduates and high school students. 1989-.

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Selected Web Sites

• http://web.mel.org/viewtopic.jsp?id=233&pathid=1067
  The Michigan Electronic Library cloning page. It features links to several cloning web sites.
• http://library.thinkquest.org/24355/
  Conceiving A Clone web site. It features a cloning timeline, discussion of various techniques, misconceptions, and implications of cloning.