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Frankenstein's footsteps : science, genetics and popular culture / Jon Turney.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, 1998.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 276 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585362033
  • 9780585362038
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Frankenstein's footsteps.DDC classification:
  • 303.48/3 21
LOC classification:
  • Q175.5 .T87 1998eb
NLM classification:
  • 1998 F-520
  • WZ 330
Other classification:
  • 42.20
  • HL 4345
Online resources:
Contents:
Mary Shelley's creation -- Hideous progeny: Frankenstein retold -- As remorseless as nature: the rise of experimental biology -- Creating life in the laboratory -- Into the brave new world -- Time-bombing our descendants -- Priming the biological time bomb -- The baby of the century -- The gene wars: regulating recombinant DNA -- Conclusion: the human body shop.
Summary: Discusses the influences of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and other works of literature on public attitudes towards biotechnology and scientific development over the last two centuries and compares them to the reality of the current controversies.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-270) and index.

Print version record.

Mary Shelley's creation -- Hideous progeny: Frankenstein retold -- As remorseless as nature: the rise of experimental biology -- Creating life in the laboratory -- Into the brave new world -- Time-bombing our descendants -- Priming the biological time bomb -- The baby of the century -- The gene wars: regulating recombinant DNA -- Conclusion: the human body shop.

Discusses the influences of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and other works of literature on public attitudes towards biotechnology and scientific development over the last two centuries and compares them to the reality of the current controversies.

English.

WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650

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