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Mit dem Schaf Dolly wurde 1996 zum ersten Mal ein ausgewachsenes Säugetier geklont. Das Ereignis wurde in der Bioethik kontrovers diskutiert. Szenarien, die eine Anwendung dieser Fortpflanzungstechnik auf den Menschen ausmalen, gehen häufig mit Assoziationen des Klons als fremdbestimmt, ausgegrenzt oder instrumentalisiert einher. Warum löst gerade das Klonen solche Bedeutungszuschreibungen aus? Die Studie geht dieser Frage nach, indem sie die Bioethik ins Verhältnis zu den Kulturwissenschaften setzt und die Perspektiven fiktionaler Literatur einbindet: Eine umfassende Überblicksdarstellung deutscher und englischer Romane sowie sieben vertiefende Einzelanalysen tragen durch die Verzahnung mit anderen Textformen zum Verständnis des Klon-Diskurses bei. Dabei zeigt sich, dass es in Szenarien einer zukünftigen Verwendung des Klonens wesentlich um »Alterität« geht: Sie handeln moralische Überzeugungen bzgl. Andersartigkeit oder Fremdheit aus, indem sie die Nutzung der Technik in einen fiktiven lebensweltlichen Kontext stellen. Hieraus leitet sich die zentrale Forderung ab, auch bei ethischen Urteilen, die die Zukunft betreffen, zu reflektieren, welche moralische Relevanz das Sprechen über den Anderen haben kann.

German fiction --- English fiction --- Bioethics in literature. --- Cloning in literature. --- History and criticism.

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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.

Law and literature. --- Bioethics in literature. --- Self in literature. --- Literature and law --- Literature --- Bioethics. --- Biolaw. --- Law and Literature.

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Frankenstein (Fictitious character) in literature --- Prometheus (Greek deity) --- Ethics --- Bioethics --- Ethics in literature --- Bioethics in literature --- Frankenstein (Personnage fictif) dans la littérature --- Prométhée (Mythologie grecque) --- Morale --- Bioéthique --- Morale dans la littérature --- Bioéthique dans la littérature --- Faust (Legendary character) --- Ethics. --- Frankenstein (Fictitious character) --- Frankenstein's monster (Fictitious character) --- Frankenstein, Victor (Fictitious character) --- Prometheus (Greek deity). --- Frankenstein's monster (Fictitious character). --- Frankenstein, Victor (Fictitious character). --- Frankenstein (Personnage fictif) dans la littérature --- Prométhée (Mythologie grecque) --- Bioéthique --- Morale dans la littérature --- Bioéthique dans la littérature --- Faust --- Bioethics. --- Ethics in literature. --- Bioethics in literature. --- Frankenstein, Victor --- Prometheus --- in literature. --- Mythology, Greek --- Characters and characteristics in literature --- Frankenstein films --- CDL --- 17 --- Monster films --- Character sketches --- Characterization (Literature) --- Literary characters --- Literary portraits --- Portraits, Literary --- Greek mythology --- Biology --- Biomedical ethics --- Life sciences --- Life sciences ethics --- Science --- History and criticism --- Moral and ethical aspects

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Frankenstein (Fictitious character) in literature --- Prometheus (Greek deity) --- Ethics --- Bioethics --- Ethics in literature --- Bioethics in literature --- Frankenstein (Personnage fictif) dans la littérature --- Prométhée (Mythologie grecque) --- Morale --- Bioéthique --- Morale dans la littérature --- Bioéthique dans la littérature --- Faust (Legendary character) --- Faust (Personnage légendaire) --- Frankenstein (Personnage fictif) dans la littérature --- Prométhée (Mythologie grecque) --- Bioéthique --- Morale dans la littérature --- Bioéthique dans la littérature --- Faust (Personnage légendaire) --- Faust --- Frankenstein, Victor --- Prometheus --- In literature. --- Faust (mythe de) --- Frankenstein --- Promethee

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Uses literature to understand and remake our ethics regarding nonhuman animals, old human beings, disabled human beings, and cloned posthumansLiterary Bioethics argues for literature as an untapped and essential site for the exploration of bioethics. Novels, Maren Tova Linett argues, present vividly imagined worlds in which certain values hold sway, casting new light onto those values; and the more plausible and well rendered readers find these imagined worlds, the more thoroughly we can evaluate the justice of those values. In an innovative set of readings, Linett thinks through the ethics of animal experimentation in H.G. Wells's The Island of Doctor Moreau, explores the elimination of aging in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, considers the valuation of disabled lives in Flannery O'Connor's The Violent Bear It Away, and questions the principles of humane farming through reading Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, where cloned human beings are used systematically by the government as organ donors. By analyzing novels published at widely spaced intervals over the span of a century, Linett offers snapshots of how we confront questions of value.In some cases the fictions are swayed by dominant devaluations of nonnormative or nonhuman lives, while in other cases they confirm the value of such lives by resisting instrumental views of their worth--views that influence, explicitly or implicitly, many contemporary bioethical discussions, especially about the value of disabled and nonhuman lives. Literary Bioethics grapples with the most fundamental questions of how we value different kinds of lives, and questions what those in power ought to be permitted to do with those lives as we gain unprecedented levels of technological prowess.

English fiction --- Bioethics in literature. --- People with disabilities in literature. --- Human body and technology in literature. --- American fiction --- Handicapped in literature --- Physically handicapped in literature --- History and criticism. --- Aging. --- Aldous Huxley. --- Alison Kafer. --- Animal ethics. --- Animal studies. --- Animal welfare. --- Brave New World. --- Cloning. --- Conceptions of the human. --- Curative imaginary. --- Deafness. --- Disability studies. --- Dsiability. --- Dystopia. --- Engineered human beings. --- Ethics of fiction. --- Eugenics. --- Flannery O’Connor. --- Genetic enhancement. --- H.G. Wells. --- Human exceptionalism. --- Humane farming. --- Intellectual disability. --- Kazuo Ishiguro. --- Liberal eugenics. --- Life narratives. --- Life stages. --- Martha Nussbaum. --- Moral worth. --- Never Let Me Go. --- Resistant reading practices. --- The Island of Doctor Moreau. --- The Violent Bear It Away. --- Thought experiments. --- Value of lives. --- Vivisection. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / General. --- Flannery O'Connor. --- Aging;Aldous Huxley;Alison Kafer;Animal ethics;Animal studies;Animal welfare;Brave New World. --- Hearing loss --- Audiology --- Ear --- Hearing disorders --- Hearing --- People with disabilities --- Sociology of disability --- Education --- Homiculture --- Race improvement --- Euthenics --- Heredity --- Involuntary sterilization --- Idiocy --- Intellectual disabilities --- Mental deficiency --- Mental retardation --- Developmental disabilities --- Psychology, Pathological --- People with mental disabilities --- Experiments, Thought --- Methodology --- Anti-vivisection --- Animal experimentation --- Animal welfare --- Biology, Experimental --- Medicine, Experimental --- Genetic engineering --- Reproduction, Asexual --- Diseases --- Study and teaching --- Curricula --- Bioethics in literature..