Contributor
Wiener, Gary.
Imprint:Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2011.
Description174 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note:The Life of Mary Shelley / Authors and Artists for Young Adults -- Mary Shelley shared Victor Frankenstein's interest in science / Elizabeth Nitchie -- Mary Shelley's knowledge of science was limited / Radu Florescu -- Frankenstein is an early research ethics text / Hugh Davies -- Shelley's Victor Frankenstein was modeled after an eccentric physician / Christopher Goulding -- Victor Frankenstein is Shelley's true monster / M.G.H. Bishop -- Frankenstein comments on the male construction of medical science / H. Bruce Franklin -- Frankenstein is a mad scientist who attempts to revise nature / Anne K. Mellor -- Frankenstein taps into biotechnical desires and fears / Jon Turney -- Artificial creatures of modern films renew sympathy for Frankenstein's creation / Jay Clayton - Frankenstein points out the dilemma of all science-based technology / Edward Tenner -- Frankenstein warns of the perils of Promethean science M.K. Joseph -- Transplant surgeons must determine when an organ donor is truly dead / Kevin B. O'Reilly -- The Sale of body parts should be legalized / Gary Jason -- Stem cell research poses difficult ethical, monetary, and political issues / John Cornwell -- Ethical issues demand good, working relationships between physicians and patients / Internal Medicine Alert -- Genetic testing forces parents to make difficult decisions / Karen Kaplan.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:Each volume of Social Issues in Literature explores a work of literature through the lens of the major social issue reflected in it, and features carefully-selected content representing a variety of perspectives, and includes biographical and critical information about the author, secondary excerpts offering both historical and contemporary views of the highlighted social issue, a timeline of the author's life, and a "For Further Reading" section.
