Literary Bioethics: Animality, Disability, and the Human

by Maren Tova Linett

Book Overview

Uses literature to understand and remake our ethics regarding nonhuman animals, old human beings, disabled human beings, and cloned posthumans

Literary Bioethics argues for literature as an untapped and essential site for the exploration of bioethics. Novels, Maren Tova Linett argues, present vividly imagined worlds in which certain values hold sway, casting new light onto those values; and the more plausible and well rendered...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479801259
• ISBN13: 9781479801251
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"