Bioethics and Biolaw through Literature

Published by De Gruyter 2011

Bioethics and Biolaw through Literature

Edited by: Daniela Carpi

Volume 2 in the series Law & Literature

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110252859

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In recent years, the well-established field of human anthropology has been put under scrutiny by the new data offered by science and technology. Scientific intervention into human life through organ transplants, euthanasia, genetic engineering, experiments connected to the genetic code and the genome, and varied other biotechnologies have placed ethical beliefs into question and created ethical dilemmas. These scientific inventions influence our views on birth and death, on the construction of the body and its technical reproducibility, and have problematized the concept of the human persona. The purpose of bioethics, the science of life, is to find new values and norms which will be valid for a multicultural society. Bioethics is, today, a well-respected topic of research that has brought together philosophers and experts to discuss the limits of science and medicine.

The aim of this book is to merge the two fields of bioethics and law (or biolaw) through the literary text, by taking into consideration the transformations of the concept of persona at which we have nowadays arrived. The new meaning of the term ‘persona’ represents in fact the final point of a long-standing quest for man's sense of his own being and human dignity, and of his capacity to live in social interrelations. The volume presents a wide range of perspectives, comprising methodological approaches, legal and literary aspects.

multidisciplinary studies discussing the impact of biotechnologies on human life, culture and self-perception
focus on highly relevant, up-to-date research questions
wide range of perspectives (comprising legal, ethical and literary questions)

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Daniela Carpi, University of Verona, Italy.

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	I
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Introduction Daniela Carpi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
From a Legal Perspective
The Genetics of Law and Literature: What is Man? Jeanne Gaakeer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Ghostly Presences: The Case of Bertha Mason Ian Ward Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	68
The Case of Conjoined Twins: Medical Dilemma in Law and Literature Gary Watt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
Vida Interminable: Patients and Family Members Between the Right to Live and the Obligation Not to Die Michele Sesta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	108
Reading Beyond the Ratio: Searching for the Subtext in the “Enforced Caesarean” Cases Jane Bryan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
From a Literary Perspective
Science Fiction and Bioethical Knowledge Eric S. Rabkin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
Shaping Personhood: Problems of Subjectivity and the Self in Shakespeare’s The Taming of The Shrew and Much Ado About Nothing John Drakakis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
On the Sciences of Man in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Art: Anatomizing the Self Patrizia Nerozzi Bellman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	162
The Beyond: Science and Law in The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells Daniela Carpi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	178
Bio-Ethics Avant la Lettre: Ninenteenth-Century Instances in Post-Darwinian Literature Yvonne Bezrucka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	188
Rhetoric, Lexicography and Bioethics in Shelly Jackson’s Hypertext Patchwork Girl Silvia Monti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
One Monstrous Ogre and One Patchwork Girl: Two Nameless Beings Paola Carbone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
A Serious Reading of Biotechnology in Japanese Graphic Novels: Weak Thoughts Regarding Ethics, Literature and Medicine Paul Cheung Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
Fulfilling Personhood at the Margins of Life: Anna Quindlen’s One True Thing Laura Apostoli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
“So what is a human being?” An Exploration of Personhood Through Jeanette Winterson’s The Stone Gods Valentina Adami Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
The Problem of Liminal Beings in Alasdair Gray’s Poor Things Sidia Fiorato Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
“Murderous Creators”: How Far Can Authors Go? Mara Logaldo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	298
Fay Weldon’s The Lives and Loves of a She Devil: Cosmetic Surgery as a Social Mask of Personhood Chiara Battisti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	318
Appendix
Mapping the Law – reading old maps of Strasbourg as representing and constituting legal spaces and places Leif Dahlberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	333

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics, Institutes, Libraries
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 372
Keywords: Bioethics; Biolaw; Law and Literature

eBook

Published: October 27, 2011
ISBN: 9783110252859

Hardcover

Published: October 17, 2011
ISBN: 9783110252842