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48. See Herbert Spiegelberg, “ 'Accident of Birth': A Non-Utilitarian Motif in
Mill's Philosophy,”
Journal of the History of Ideas
22, No. 10 (1961): 475-492.
and “Ethics for Fellows in the Fate of Experience,” in
Mid-Twentieth Century
American Philosophy: Personal Statements
, ed. Peter Bertocci (New York:
Humanities Press, 1974), 193-210.
49. Mawer,
Mendel's Dwarf
, 238.
50. Ibid., 245.
51. Herbert Spiegelberg, “A Defense of Human Equality,”
Philosophical Review
53 (1944): 113.
52. Mawer,
Mendel's Dwarf
, 214-215.
53. See I. Wilmut, A. E. Schnieke, J. McWhir, A. J. Kind, and K. H. S.
Campbell, “Viable Offspring” 810-813. See also
Cloning Human Beings
: Report
and Recommendation of the National Bioethics Advising Commission
(Rockville, MD: The Commission, 1997), 19-23.
54. In particular, the potentially lethal consequences from alien viruses and
bacteria.
55. See Richard M. Zaner,
The Context of Self
(Athens: Ohio University Press,
1981), where I used a neologism to capture this complexity: complexure.
56. Jean Bethke Elshtain, “To Clone or Not to Clone,” in
Clones and Clones:
Facts and Fantasies about Human Cloning
, ed. Martha C. Nussbaum and Cass
R. Sunstein (New York: W. W. Norton, 1998), 182.
57. Albert Camus,
The Myth of Sisyphus, and Other Essays
(New York: Vintage,
1955), 102.
