INEVITABLE HUMAN CLONING AS VIEWED FROM 221-B BAKER STREET

Ethics & Medicine,  Fall 2004  by Cheshire, William P

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Aspiring human cloners would do well to heed the words of Sherlock Holmes, who declared, "When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge."54 May biomedical knowledge always be nurtured by wisdom and applied with humility, for efforts that honor human dignity are never futile.

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35 Doyle, "The Hound of the Baskervilles," p. 284.