Bio-Ethics Avant la Lettre: Ninenteenth-Century Instances in Post-Darwinian Literature

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. From a Legal Perspective
5. The Genetics of Law and Literature: What is Man? 23
6. Ghostly Presences: The Case of Bertha Mason 68
7. The Case of Conjoined Twins: Medical Dilemma in Law and Literature 93
8. Vida Interminable: Patients and Family Members Between the Right to Live and the Obligation Not to Die 108
9. Reading Beyond the Ratio: Searching for the Subtext in the “Enforced Caesarean” Cases 115
10. From a Literary Perspective
11. Science Fiction and Bioethical Knowledge 137
12. Shaping Personhood: Problems of Subjectivity and the Self in Shakespeare’s The Taming of The Shrew and Much Ado About Nothing 149
13. On the Sciences of Man in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Art: Anatomizing the Self 162
14. The Beyond: Science and Law in The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells 178
15. Bio-Ethics Avant la Lettre: Ninenteenth-Century Instances in Post-Darwinian Literature 188
16. Rhetoric, Lexicography and Bioethics in Shelly Jackson’s Hypertext Patchwork Girl 203
17. One Monstrous Ogre and One Patchwork Girl: Two Nameless Beings 219
18. A Serious Reading of Biotechnology in Japanese Graphic Novels: Weak Thoughts Regarding Ethics, Literature and Medicine 239
19. Fulfilling Personhood at the Margins of Life: Anna Quindlen’s One True Thing 251
20. “So what is a human being?” An Exploration of Personhood Through Jeanette Winterson’s The Stone Gods 273
21. The Problem of Liminal Beings in Alasdair Gray’s Poor Things 283
22. “Murderous Creators”: How Far Can Authors Go? 298
23. Fay Weldon’s The Lives and Loves of a She Devil: Cosmetic Surgery as a Social Mask of Personhood 318
24. Appendix
25. Mapping the Law – reading old maps of Strasbourg as representing and constituting legal spaces and places 333