BIOETHICS AND BIOLAW THROUGH LITERATURE
Edited by Daniela Carpi
DeGruyter, Berlin/New York, 2011.
New Series: “Law and Literature”
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
by Daniela Carpi
From a legal perspective:
– The Genetics of Law and Literature: What is Man? ‘From language to life is just four letters’
by Jeanne Gaakeer
– Ghostly Presences: The case of Bertha Mason
by Ian Ward
– The Case of Conjoined Twins: Medical dilemma in law and literature
by Gary Watt
– “Vida interminable: Patients and family members between the right to live and the obligation not to die”
by Michele Sesta
– Reading Beyond the Ratio: searching for the subtext in the ‘enforced caesarean’ cases
by Jane Bryan
From a literary perspective:
– Science Fiction and Bioethical Knowledge
by Eric Rabkin
– Shaping Personhood: Problems of subjectivity and the self in Shakespeare’s The Taming of The Shrew and Much Ado About Nothing
by John Drakakis
– On the Sciences of Man in Eighteenth Century English Literature and Art: Anatomizing the Self
by Patrizia Nerozzi
– The Beyond: Science and law in The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G.Wells
by Daniela Carpi
– Bio-ethics Avant la Lettre: ninenteenth-century instances in post-darwinian literature
by Yvonne Bezrucka
– Rhetoric, Lexicography and Bioethics in Shelley Jackson’s Hypertext Patchwork Girl
by Silvia Monti
– One Monstrous Ogre and One Patchwork Girl: Two nameless beings
by Paola Carbone
– A Serious Reading of Biotechnology in Japanese Graphic Novels: weak thoughts regarding ethics, literature and medicine
by Paul Cheung
– Fulfilling Personhood at the Margins of Life: Anna Quindlen’s One True Thing
by Laura Apostoli
– ‘So what is a human being?’ An exploration of personhood through Jeanette Winterson’s The Stone Gods
by Valentina Adami
– The Problem of Liminal Beings in Alasdair Gray’s Poor Things
by Sidia Fiorato
– ‘Murderous Creators’: How far can authors go?
by Mara Logaldo
– Fay Weldon’s The Lives and Loves of a She Devil: Cosmetic surgery as a social mask of personhood
by Chiara Battisti
APPENDIX
– Mapping the Law: reading old maps of Strasbourg as representing and constituting legal spaces and places
by Leif Dahlberg