The Persistence of the Frankenstein Myth
Organ Transplantation and Surrogate Motherhood
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10759397 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Claire Stubber (0000-0001-8668-7402, Monash University, corresponding author), Maggie Kirkman (0000-0003-0976-0260, Monash University) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 99 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 29-53 |
| Publication date | 2016-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Soundings An Interdisciplinary Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-1861 • E-ISSN: 2161-6302 |
| Publisher | The Pennsylvania State University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5325/soundings.99.1.0029 |
| OpenAlex | W2258569483 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 27 |
The myth of Prometheus embodied in Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, has transformed into a powerful metaphor that has influenced conceptions of science and bioethics, especially of organ transplantation and assisted conception. The authors of this article employ auto-ethnographic accounts that draw on personal experience of organ transplantation and surrogate motherhood with assisted conception to examine the fear that “mad” scientists and audacious people will, through their hubris, attract calamitous consequences. It is evident that the myth of Frankenstein continues to influence constructions of science and technology
Aesthetics · Argument (complex analysis · Art · Bioethics · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Ethnography · Hubris · Literature · Metaphor · Mythology · Organ donation · Organ transplantation · Persistence (discontinuity · Political science · Sociology · Theology · Anthropology · Law · Medicine · Organ and Tissue Transplantation Research · Organ Donation and Transplantation · Philosophy · Transplantation
Man-Made Women
Uses of Literature
Greed and Injustice in Classical Athens
The Moral Authority of Nature
History of Western Philosophy
People's attitudes and reactions to organ donation
From test-tube women to bodies without women
A history of western philosophy
Orphans of Nature
From Alice and Evelyn to Isabella
The social construction of surrogacy research
Attitudes toward organ donation and transplantation
"The creation of "monsters
The Gift
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2022 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |