LEADER 05470nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910788552403321 005 20230725045633.0 010 $a1-283-43006-1 010 $a9786613430069 010 $a3-11-025285-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110252859 035 $a(CKB)3360000000338206 035 $a(EBL)799408 035 $a(OCoLC)768572167 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000559608 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12201542 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000559608 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10567126 035 $a(PQKB)11098073 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC799408 035 $a(DE-B1597)123357 035 $a(OCoLC)775373227 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110252859 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL799408 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10515787 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL343006 035 $a(EXLCZ)993360000000338206 100 $a20110302d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aBioethics and biolaw through literature$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Daniela Carpi 210 $aNew York $cDe Gruyter$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (380 p.) 225 0 $aLaw & literature ;$v2 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a3-11-025284-8 327 $tFront matter --$tTable of Contents --$tIntroduction /$rCarpi, Daniela --$tFrom a Legal Perspective --$tThe Genetics of Law and Literature: What is Man? /$rGaakeer, Jeanne --$tGhostly Presences: The Case of Bertha Mason /$rWard, Ian --$tThe Case of Conjoined Twins: Medical Dilemma in Law and Literature /$rWatt, Gary --$tVida Interminable: Patients and Family Members Between the Right to Live and the Obligation Not to Die /$rSesta, Michele --$tReading Beyond the Ratio: Searching for the Subtext in the "Enforced Caesarean" Cases /$rBryan, Jane --$tFrom a Literary Perspective --$tScience Fiction and Bioethical Knowledge /$rRabkin, Eric S. --$tShaping Personhood: Problems of Subjectivity and the Self in Shakespeare's The Taming of The Shrew and Much Ado About Nothing /$rDrakakis, John --$tOn the Sciences of Man in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Art: Anatomizing the Self /$rBellman, Patrizia Nerozzi --$tThe Beyond: Science and Law in The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells /$rCarpi, Daniela --$tBio-Ethics Avant la Lettre: Ninenteenth-Century Instances in Post-Darwinian Literature /$rBezrucka, Yvonne --$tRhetoric, Lexicography and Bioethics in Shelly Jackson's Hypertext Patchwork Girl /$rMonti, Silvia --$tOne Monstrous Ogre and One Patchwork Girl: Two Nameless Beings /$rCarbone, Paola --$tA Serious Reading of Biotechnology in Japanese Graphic Novels: Weak Thoughts Regarding Ethics, Literature and Medicine /$rCheung, Paul --$tFulfilling Personhood at the Margins of Life: Anna Quindlen's One True Thing /$rApostoli, Laura --$t"So what is a human being?" An Exploration of Personhood Through Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods /$rAdami, Valentina --$tThe Problem of Liminal Beings in Alasdair Gray's Poor Things /$rFiorato, Sidia --$t"Murderous Creators": How Far Can Authors Go? /$rLogaldo, Mara --$tFay Weldon's The Lives and Loves of a She Devil: Cosmetic Surgery as a Social Mask of Personhood /$rBattisti, Chiara --$tAppendix --$tMapping the Law - reading old maps of Strasbourg as representing and constituting legal spaces and places /$rDahlberg, Leif 330 $aIn recent years, the well-established field of human anthropology has been put under scrutiny by the new data offered by science and technology. Scientific intervention into human life through organ transplants, euthanasia, genetic engineering, experiments connected to the genetic code and the genome, and varied other biotechnologies have placed ethical beliefs into question and created ethical dilemmas. These scientific inventions influence our views on birth and death, on the construction of the body and its technical reproducibility, and have problematized the concept of the human persona. The purpose of bioethics, the science of life, is to find new values and norms which will be valid for a multicultural society. Bioethics is, today, a well-respected topic of research that has brought together philosophers and experts to discuss the limits of science and medicine. The aim of this book is to merge the two fields of bioethics and law (or biolaw) through the literary text, by taking into consideration the transformations of the concept of persona at which we have nowadays arrived. The new meaning of the term 'persona' represents in fact the final point of a long-standing quest for man's sense of his own being and human dignity, and of his capacity to live in social interrelations. The volume presents a wide range of perspectives, comprising methodological approaches, legal and literary aspects. 410 0$aLaw & Literature 606 $aLaw and literature 606 $aBioethics in literature 606 $aSelf in literature 610 $aBioethics. 610 $aBiolaw. 610 $aLaw and Literature. 615 0$aLaw and literature. 615 0$aBioethics in literature. 615 0$aSelf in literature. 676 $a809/.933561 686 $aPI 4120$2rvk 701 $aCarpi$b Daniela$0220839 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788552403321 996 $aBioethics and biolaw through literature$93676405 997 $aUNINA