Product Description

Banning therapeutic and reproductive cloning jeopardizes more than cloning itself. The constitutional principles intertwined with cloning embrace such vital liberties as personal autonomy, privacy, reproduction, and freedom of expression. Kunich establishes the pressing need to evaluate cloning in a rational scientific and legal manner, before the extreme opposition sprouting from fear and misunderstanding, which has already led to several state laws, results in an unconstitutional federal ban.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2198204 in Books
• Published on: 2003-06-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 192 pages

Review
“Kunich leaves his readers with a keener understanding of the cloning debate, allowing them to grasp the core concepts while maintaining their interest and focus with his straightforward explanations.”–Journal of Legislation and Public Policy

“[J]ohn C. Kunich's well-written and very accessible The Naked Clone provides an honest and refreshing advocacy for reproductive cloning....[K]unich has articulated a cogent, comprehensively researched argument that is a good primer for those who might otherwise not consider the legal issues surrounding reproductive cloning.”–Harvard Journal of Law & Technology

“[T]he reader is provided with an understanding of how legislation banning or restricting cloning may affect constitutional rights....[t]his book is an excellent challenge to understand the legal issues underlying the cloning debate. Kunich addresses First Amendment protection for cloning research itself, as well as research as a necessary precursor to protected speech. Additionally, he addresses how reproductive cloning should be protected as a procreative liberty, and analyzed with abortion and contraception cases in mind. The Naked Clone will be most valuable to the reader who is trying to understand the possible constitutional crisis created by anti-cloning legislation in its current form.”–Journal of Law & Family Studies

“[T]he Naked Clone is a valuable work for anyone interested in the collision of politics and cuttin-edge science. It is one of the few books that make a bold, impassioned plea for moralistic politicans to cease standing athwart science, yelling, "Stop!" Such a commonsense viewpoint deserves to be more widely heard. In fact, one could say that it deserves to be cloned.”–Libertarian Party Online

“The Naked Clone not only provides a systematic introduction to this vital topic, but more importantly, makes a cogent argument against ill-considered bans on cloning. Professor Kunich brings insightful analysis to a topic usually swamped by emotion and prejudice.”–Daniel A. Farber McKnight Presidential Professor of Public Law, Henry J. Fletcher Professor of Law, and Associate Dean for Faculty Research University of Minnesota

“An interesting and provocative book discussing not only the scientific background of human cloning but also proposed legislation to ban or limit human cloning as well as constitutional challenges to such legislation. Anyone interested in this timely legal issue will want to know John Kunich's analysis and argument as to why he believes that the modern case law may place important limits on efforts to ban cloning.”–Ronald D. Rotunda George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law George Mason University

“John Kunich has written an astoundingly fascinating, important, and compelling book that every civilized person must read.”–Harvey A. Silverglate Partner, Silverglate & Good, Attorneys, Boston co-author, The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses (HarperPerennial, 1999)

About the Author
JOHN CHARLES KUNICH is Associate Professor of Law, Appalachian School of Law, Virginia.

Customer Reviews

Read this Book!
Absolute genius! Professor Kunich takes a look at all the nonsense swirling around human cloning, and rips the mask off of it. With brilliant clarity and insight, this book exposes the many fallacies riddling the anti-cloning movement. Most important of all, Kunich's book proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that if the government bans cloning, some of our most precious civil liberties may be next. This is a book for the ages, but especially our age.

An exciting, fascinating book from a brilliant mind.
The subject matter is human freedom, and this book is one which raises fundamental issues about the freedoms of man in relation to cloning. If freedom and cloning are subjects of concern, a more appropriate read cannot be found. The book is fascinating, bold and powerful, one of the most important books about the cloning controversy. You may agree or disagree with the author on his conclusions but you'll never be bored for a minute.

We have freedoms now that scarcely existed five hundred years ago or even one hundred years ago. A century from now new freedoms or aspects of freedoms will exist. These new freedoms, like the old ones, will have to be won through the efforts of people like John C. Kunich.

William C. O'Rights

A Thoughtful, Illuminating, and Provocative Book
The Naked Clone is a thoughtful, illuminating and provocative book on a subject that implicates an extraordinary array of ethical, legal and constitutional issues. Whether or not one agrees with the author that reproductive cloning is linked to a broad network of vital personal autonomy rights, the reader is bound to come away with a much more informed and reasoned view of a highly emotional and much-misunderstood subject.

Yale Kamisar, Clarence Darrow Distinguished University Professor, University of Michigan Law School.