(word)研究生综合英语课文.Unit 6.The Media and the Ethics of Cloning.docVIP

The Media and the Ethics of Cloning If the contemporary debate on cloning has a patron saint, surely it is Andy Warhol. Not only did Warhol assert that everyone would have 15 minutes of fame — witness the lawyers, philosophers, theologians, and bioethicists who found their expertise in hot demand on the nightly morality plays of network television following Ian Wilmut’s cloning of the sheep Dolly — but he also placed “clones,” multiple copies of the same phenomenon, at the heart of popular culture. Instead of multiple images of Marilyn Monroe and Campbell’s soup cans, we now have cloned sheep.