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Literary Bioethics - Animality, Disability, and the Human (Paperback)
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Literary Bioethics - Animality, Disability, and the Human (Paperback)
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Uses literature to understand and remake our ethics regarding
nonhuman animals, old human beings, disabled human beings, and
cloned posthumans Literary 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. 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.
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