Abstract

Human cloning is an ethical and scientific dilemma. The present chapter is a snapshot of human cloning from the scientific and ethical perspectives. At first, this issue raises a lot of questions including when, why, how, where, and for whom? Furthermore, society, religion, law, and culture entangle this issue even more. Human cloning discussions broadly consider a mass production of human clones. The therapeutic and reproductive cloning precede the “human cloning”. The aim of this chapter is to put forward a conceptual framework in order to formulate decisions related to the issue of human cloning. Here I have encompassed the subject of cloning as a scientific technique with a brief historical background and recent advances. The practical components of human cloning such as surrogacy and risk-benefit analysis have been discussed. I have explained the bioethics and the framework of healthcare principles to approach the exemplary scenarios. Finally, the global rules, regulations and legislations of different countries are mentioned to understand regional variation in the subject of human cloning.