[Media, cloning, and bioethics].
This article was based on an analysis of three hundred articles from mainstream Brazilian periodicals over a period of eighteen months, beginning with the announcement of the Dolly case in February 1997. There were two main objectives: to outline the moral constants in the press associated with the possibility of cloning human beings and to identify some of the moral assumptions concerning scientific research with non-human animals that were published carelessly by the media. The authors conclude that there was a haphazard spread of fear concerning the cloning of human beings rather than an ethical debate on the issue, and that there is a serious gap between bioethical reflections and the Brazilian media.
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D000818:Animals; D001675:Bioethics; D019976:Cloning, Organism; D006801:Humans; D008402:Mass Media; D009524:Newspapers as Topic; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D011639:Public Opinion