Editing the Soul : : Science and Fiction in the Genome Age / / Everett Hamner.
Personal genome testing, gene editing for life-threatening diseases, synthetic life: once the stuff of science fiction, twentieth- and twenty-first-century advancements blur the lines between scientific narrative and scientific fact. This examination of bioengineering in popular and literary culture...
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | AnthropoScene: The SLSA Book Series ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 p.) :; 19 illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Regenesis
- 1. Genetics as Science, Ideology, and Fiction
- 2. The Evolution of Genetic Fantasy
- 3. The Cultural Determinism of Genetic Realism
- 4. Serpent Women, Prophets, and Satire in Genetic Metafiction
- 5. The Predisposed Agency of Genetics and Fiction
- Coda: Arrival
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index