Forgotten Clones at once teaches us something new about our present and offers hope for a future that, better informed about our past, wont uncritically perpetuate it. If ever scholarly history of science needed a justification, that, surely, is it. * Journal of the History of Biology * This chronicle of research into animal development with its array of scientific explorers leaping over hurdles to challenge the unknown raises moral issues that still resonate today. * Choice Reviews * Goodbye, Dolly. In tracing the forgotten history of human cloning, Crowe leads us along the back roads of some of the most fertile provinces of modern biology: the search for the secret of life; the quest to conquer cancer; the perennial impulse to build a better human; the drive toward a more ethical science. Every chapter is a revelation and a delight. -- Nathaniel Comfort, author of The Science of Human Perfection: How Genes Became the Heart of American Medicine Retracing the transition of nuclear transplantation from research method to reproductive technology, Forgotten Clones tells a story central to the emergence of developmental biology as the thriving field we know today. Engaging and intelligent, it will be valued alike by scientists and historians of biology. -- Nicolas Rasmussen, author of Gene Jockeys: Life Science and the Rise of Biotech Enterprise The idea of cloning animal life, a term borrowed from horticulture to mean vegetative propagation, burst into public conversations about science in the 1960s. In his fascinating history, Crowe deftly recounts the research on nuclear transplantation that led to this moment and the rise and fall of public interest in the bioethical implications of cloning animals, from frogs to humans. -- Erika Lorraine Milam, author of Creatures of Cain: The Hunt for Human Nature in Cold War America A rich and well-researched study of a case where various actors, situated in diverse fields and institutions, articulated and rearticulated the history of a specific technique. In our current moment when cycles of hype radically shape the practices of scientific knowledge production, Forgotten Clones offers a useful framework to critically approach the stories that popular writers, scientists, and, yes, sometimes even historians tell. * H-Net Review *
